{"id":178965,"date":"2018-07-03T19:07:00","date_gmt":"2018-07-04T00:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/07\/03\/the-problem-is-not-that-it-is-excessive-but-that-it-is-insufficient\/"},"modified":"2018-07-03T19:07:00","modified_gmt":"2018-07-04T00:07:00","slug":"the-problem-is-not-that-it-is-excessive-but-that-it-is-insufficient","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/07\/03\/the-problem-is-not-that-it-is-excessive-but-that-it-is-insufficient\/","title":{"rendered":"The Problem is Not that it is Excessive, But that it is insufficient"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Danes, no doubt in response to political pressure from the racist Dansk Folkeparti (DF, also called DPP) in parliament, have adopted a law mandating that families on public assistance Muslim ghettos must place their children in government run preschools<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It’s supposed to teach them the language, and inculcate them in Danish culture.<\/p>\n

The problem here is not that they are requiring this of Muslims on the dole, it’s that they are not requiring every child whose family needs public aren’t in these schools together, in integrated classrooms<\/span><\/b><\/span>, learning that their backwards bigoted parents on both sides of this religious divide are wrong: <\/p>\n

When Rokhaia Naassan gives birth in the coming days, she and her baby boy will enter a new category in the eyes of Danish law. Because she lives in a low-income immigrant neighborhood described by the government as a \u201cghetto,\u201d Rokhaia will be what the Danish newspapers call a \u201cghetto parent\u201d and he will be a \u201cghetto child.\u201d<\/span>

<\/span>Starting at the age of 1, \u201cghetto children\u201d must be separated from their families for at least 25 hours a week, not including nap time, for mandatory instruction in \u201cDanish values,\u201d including the traditions of Christmas and Easter, and Danish language. Noncompliance could result in a stoppage of welfare payments. Other Danish citizens are free to choose whether to enroll children in preschool up to the age of six.<\/span>

<\/span>Denmark\u2019s government is introducing a new set of laws to regulate life in 25 low-income and heavily Muslim enclaves, saying that if families there do not willingly merge into the country\u2019s mainstream, they should be compelled.<\/span>

<\/span>For decades, integrating immigrants has posed a thorny challenge to the Danish model, intended to serve a small, homogeneous population. Leaders are focusing their ire on urban neighborhoods where immigrants, some of them placed there by the government, live in dense concentrations with high rates of unemployment and gang violence.<\/span>

<\/span>Politicians\u2019 description of the ghettos has become increasingly sinister. In his annual New Year\u2019s speech, Prime Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen warned that ghettos could \u201creach out their tentacles onto the streets\u201d by spreading violence, and that because of ghettos, \u201ccracks have appeared on the map of Denmark.\u201d Politicians who once used the word \u201cintegration\u201d now call frankly for \u201cassimilation.\u201d<\/span>

<\/span>That tough approach is embodied in the \u201cghetto package.\u201d Of 22 proposals presented by the government in early March, most have been agreed upon by a parliamentary majority, and more will be subject to a vote in the fall.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Let’s be clear, there are additional parts of these statutes are really horrible, things like arbitrary increases in penalties in Muslim ghettos, but the bulk of outrage is directed at tying preschool to welfare payments.<\/p>\n

Not only would this be applied across Denmark, it should be applied across the United States.<\/p>\n

It’s called mandatory schooling, and universal Pre-K. <\/p>\n

H\/t Naked Capitalism<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Danes, no doubt in response to political pressure from the racist Dansk Folkeparti (DF, also called DPP) in parliament, have adopted a law mandating that families on public assistance Muslim ghettos must place their children in government run preschools. It’s supposed to teach them the language, and inculcate them in Danish culture. The problem …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[506,371,374,398,508],"class_list":["post-178965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-bigotry","tag-europe","tag-politics","tag-racism","tag-social-safety-net"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178965"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178965\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}