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18 Mar, 8 tweets, 2 min read
Click on the enclosed tweet and see just how many outright racists from across the globe is taking this move by Denmark as validation for their racism. Genuine question: Why is Denmark so racist?
This is happening in the same week as this. Denmark stripping Syrian refugees of their residence permits and seeking to deport them back to Syria, which even the Danish embassy in Syria says is not safe.
Also this. Second attack on random Muslim women in Denmark which is so obviously racially motivated, but the authorities refuse to acknowledge that it's racially motivated.
I have friends who live in Denmark. They are brown and Muslim and are Danish citizens. Yet they tell me, repeatedly, that they have experienced racism in Denmark since they were children, and openly describe Denmark as a racist society. The question is only, why?
Like I can tell you that in India, Hindutva populism is rooted in feeling humiliated and wanting to avenge that. In Israel, racism is also rooted in fear of extermination. In the US, racism is about loss of ethnic-based privilege. What's going on in Denmark?
Denmark is wealthy. Danes do not have a history of being persecuted, exterminated, humiliated, or being an underclass. Danes are an overwhelming majority in their country. Danish culture is more threatened by Netflix than by the Qur'an. So why is the country going racist?
Maybe I found it (from Wikipedia): The number of Danes have been stable at around 5 million since 1980. Nearly the entire increase of the population to around 5.8 million has been from immigration. The fertility rate in the country is 1.67 (2.1 = replacement rate).
Note that no developed country so far has managed to return its fertility rate to 2.1+ after it had dipped due to demographic maturation. Denmark is actually a success story having managed to prevent further decline in fertility rate, but even that is way below replacement.

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