Who is Crazy in Holland Today?
The former Soviet Union used to send dissidents to psychiatric wards and treat them for the mental disease of not seeing the benefits of communism. In Europe, we have not gone so far (yet) that people who do not see the benefits of the multicultural society are treated as lunatics. They are merely considered to be “fascists” or “racists.” Nevertheless, some intellectuals on the left truly seem unable to understand how anyone who is right in the head can be “right” in the head.
This explains why many leftist Dutch are so puzzled by Geert Wilders. While they can understand that the blue-collar lower classes oppose immigrants – because they are unsophisticated and dumb – they find it hard to understand why a seemingly intelligent man like Geert Wilders is fighting the Islamization of his home country.
Last week, an article by the cultural anthropologist Lizzy van Leeuwen in the leftist weekly De Groene Amsterdammer (“The Green Amsterdammer”) caused a stir. She explains Wilders’s “rabid anti-immigration and anti-Islam ideas” as stemming from his ethnic mix. The article is considered to be “an intellectual attempt to analyze what drives Wilders.” According to Mrs. van Leeuwen his statements – plus the fact that he dies his hair peroxide blond – are connected to his genealogical link to Indonesia, the largest Islamic country in the world.
Of Barack Obama it is said that his worldview has been influenced by his childhood years in Indonesia, the former Dutch colony that is also said to have shaped Geert Wilders’s worldview. Van Leeuwen reveals that Wilders’s maternal grandmother, Johanna Meijer, was a member of a prominent Jewish-Indonesian family. Her husband, Johan Ording, was a regional financial administrator in the Dutch colony. According to van Leeuwen, the latter was fired while on leave in the Netherlands and reduced to poverty when the government refused to give him a pension. Van Leeuwen says that Wilders is out to avenge the injustice done to his granddad.
The Indonesian colonial background of his grandfather is also said to explain Wilders’s “far-right” opinions. She claims that in the 1930s many colonial administrators sympathized with the Dutch Nazi party NSB. After the independence of Indonesia in 1949, they were forced to leave for the Netherlands. This frustrating experience led to their attachment to patriotism and European values. Moreover, they harbored strong sentiments against Islam, the dominant religion in Indonesia. In Wilders’s case, his anti-Islamic and pro-Israeli feelings were exacerbated by the Jewish origin of his grandmother.
Van Leeuwen’s revelations – if true, because Wilders has not responded to them and keeps his private life absolutely private – do not explain, however, how Wilders’s father can have harbored sympathies for the anti-Semitic NSB while being married to a Jewish wife. That accusation makes her thesis highly unlikely, if not ridiculous.
It is astonishing, however, that leftist intellectuals in Europe no longer see a contradiction between Nazism and pro-Jewish positions. Indeed, Israel is consistently depicted by the European left as a racist Nazi-like state. Meanwhile, the Dutch media criticize Wilders for not disclosing his genealogy. “Wilders hides his family roots,” a major (center-right) Dutch newspaper headlined.
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Ah, does she write for the NYT's, did you say? Like we don't get that here, and it is becoming more pervasive. As far as the left considering real people insane, that is the same here as well. Psychiatry is trying, very diligently, to make that standard case. Why all the fixed studies on the matter if not?
The only reason the left in Europe has not begun "institutionalizing" conservatives is because they are waiting on America (just as with genocide against the elderly, those difficult to treat, and others through "medicine").
Yeah, I know, back to reality... right?
Ever since Adorno's "The Authoritarian Personality", progs have labelled people unlike themselves as either ouright crazy or dysfunctional and anti-social.
For some reason, they don't see radical or immoderate Muslims in the same way, maybe because progressivism today is a death wish made worse by cowardice.
By 2020, immigrants or first-generation Muslim males under age 18 will outnumber native Dutch of the same age. It's too late. The yammering of Dutch "intellectuals" is background noise to their culture's funeral music.
It's time to laugh and move on.
Brainwashing is so clear from this article.
We are seeing it hear, incrementally.
It is a full court play over seas.
P.S. I said I would not bother you all, about the subjects I have researched, the last 15yrs. I did not say that I would stop commenting.
And I meant to say My local friends and family say I am to harsh.
Nickie,
ignore the subject and look around for the context.
Guess who's granny was in the finance business that neck of the woods?
Neck deep and still the plagoes on.
Heads up.
Escaping the Netherlands
SARAH JOHNSON
03-05-2005
Europe's pioneer for much of the last century in social experiments, it seems the Netherlands may now be pointing to the next cultural revolution: the bourgeois exodus. Escaping the stress of clogged roads, street violence and loss of faith in the country's once celebrated way of life, the Dutch are quitting their homeland in droves.
More and more Dutch people are leaving the Netherlands to live abroad. In 1999, nearly 30,000 native Dutch moved elsewhere. By 2004 the figure had shot up to almost 50,000. Dutch people emigrating around the world is nothing new, but this time it's highly skilled people with degrees that are leaving, the kind of workforce you want to keep.
Lack of tolerance
Some migrants are also voting with their feet against what they see as a multicultural experiment gone wrong, and the increase in violence and social tension they believe has come with it. It began in May 2002 when populist anti-immigration politician Pim Fortuyn was shot dead by a left-wing activist - the country's first political assassination in over 400 years.
Then, in November 2004, came the murder of filmmaker Theo van Gogh, a fierce critic of fundamentalist Muslims. His ritual-style killing by an alleged Islamic extremist was followed by angry demonstrations and fire-bombings of mosques and Muslim schools. The violence shocked the country. Professor Beunders says:
"The assassin of Theo van Gogh released not only anger but a lot of fear of fanatic Muslims and random violence. It was new for Dutch people to feel physical insecurity, because we are living in a very small country where you can come across anybody."
So should the Dutch government be worried about this flight of the well-educated middle classes? Professor Beunders thinks not. He says others who immigrate to the Netherlands will replace the Dutch who leave:
"It will make things a bit more complicated because you have to integrate an even greater number of foreigners into your own country, with all the very complicated regulation systems we have in this country. Growing mobility on the other hand is also a good sign of the growing unification of Europe and understanding of people - I hope."
http://tinyurl.com/m6wam3
Doom, It seems that being a Conservative is becoming a badge of courage.
"...progressivism today is a death wish made worse by cowardice"
Rhod, there are moments when you describe the condition with stunning accuracy.
TS/WS...
Who's to say what is too harsh. The game is still in full play and half the players haven't even taken the field. It's too soon to ignore anybody's prediction or analysis.
Incoming, could you be a little more cryptic? Details, ny friend!!
Scunny, thanks. Time will tell. I, of course, fear the worst.
The phenomenon Scunny presents in his link is true for the UK, too, with applications for emigration to other English-speaking countries increasing.
The Netherlands, which has a population about the size of New England, is well along in its replacement migration - it isn't immigration - it's a migration of new-comers to replace the senescent and attenuated Dutch ethos.
Beunders is also a fool if not an idiot. His assumption that The Netherlands will "integrate...foreigners" is ludicrous. The foreigners will integrate the remaining Dutch into a new entity, and it won't have any resemblance to the free-wheeling Netherlands of today.
I think the expression is "vaarwel Hollanders".
Classical conditioning of applying to offensive terms to a political opponent of traditional views seems to be a world-wide strategy. It's really sad to see this is all they have to justify their weak arguments.
His anti-immigration stance couldn't have anything to do with things like THIS now could they.
Or THIS
Everyone should be like Australia or at least the Australia when John Howard was PM.
Nickie, I fear that the citizens are going to have to take up the defense of this country - not soon in my opinion - but eventually, if liberal practices win out.
Administrations like this demoralize everyone out of the agencies who are in place to protect the country. It won't happen overnight, but it will happen just as the clinton administration cut from 1/3rd to 1/2 of the military and saw many more leave in disgust.
Not to mention the intelligence community who were working with etch a sketches instead of laptops by the time the clinton's were looting the white house on the way out.
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