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- 02 Apr 08
- 2:02 am
I'm skimming through the comments and many of them seem typical of the arrogance and barely-concealed racism that plagues the european (& to a lesser extent, the north american) left., a museum-quality illustration being KOPA's "I would suggest that she spends the coming years reading Marx, Luxemburg and Zetkin". I know a bit about "quaint" Denmark, having lived there for 25 years, and I have watched a constant demonisation of the underclass unfold, in what was, when I first arrived, a lily-white nearly-totally-homogenous society, without ethnic, religious or linguistic minorities. This demonisation has publicly taken on a tone which would be …

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- 09 Jun 08
- 1:15 am
a socialist perspective well worth reading: "The Danish Disease" http://monthlyreview.org/080609brun-hersh.php

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- 09 Jun 08
- 1:19 am
btw kopa, suggest you attend a basic course on the politics and government of your own country because to state "Because of our Lutheran past, religion is strictly a personal issue" is to reveal a remarkable ignorance. Denmark has no separation of church & state, no matter how personally devout or atheist individual danes might be. Denmark has a state church which is financed by the taxpayers and administered by a government ministry.

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