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Designing an Underclass

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Denmark has voted in favor of requisitioning the property of the refugees. The same refugees who don’t get work permits for quite a while.

Inger Støjberg, the country’s Minister of Integration, recognized that the money that the refugees carry will not be able to reimburse the state budget for the costs of integration in any but a purely symbolic way. According to Støjberg, the real goal of seizing the refugees’ money is “to reduce their affluence.” That’s the actual, openly declared goal.

The Danish government is also planning to build enclaves or ghettos outside of the cities where the refugees will reside in culturally homogeneous groups with little interaction with the rest of society.

I think nobody could put this any more clearly: every effort is being made to create an indigent, marginalized underclass that is totally dependent on the government and feels resentful, angry, and incapable of integrating.

I read about this in Spanish but I’m sure you can find English-language sources.

10 responses to “Designing an Underclass”

  1. Spiderbaby Avatar
    Spiderbaby

    I don’t understand these policies, I don’t understand them at all.
    How is putting immigrants in a ghetto and hindering their integration going to do any good to anyone?

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  2. cliff arroyo Avatar
    cliff arroyo

    Without reading the article but having some idea of what’s going on in different countries in Europe I thinking the idea might be to take the migrants at their word that they are refugees.

    Part of the refugee model has usually been that once the conflict is over they go back home.

    By making it unpleasant and clearly not a road for stealth immigration they might be trying to prompt the non-refugee majority to head back wherever.

    Just a guess.

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    1. Clarissa Avatar
      Clarissa

      That would be quite cynical but I won’t put it past Europeans. Of course, much more than cynical it is also very dumb.

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      1. el Avatar
        el

        \ That would be quite cynical but I won’t put it past Europeans.

        Probably the worst thing is that there is no consistency in European treatment of new arrivals. Here Cameron wants to make access to benefits harder and Merkel acts against him for some reason:

        Cameron and Merkel clash over when migrant workers should be able to claim British benefits as Germany insists earning just £7,000 is enough to qualify

        Germans say people earning £7,000 should be able to claim handouts

        But the British are pushing for the minimum wage to be closer to £13,000

        Crunch summit on February 19 is the target for a deal – pencilling in the referendum for as soon as June 23

        http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3417064/David-Cameron-s-EU-talks-deadlocked-way-low-German-demands-claim-workers-benefits-Downing-Street-insists-PM-making-progress.html

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        1. Clarissa Avatar
          Clarissa

          Yes, trying to make sure that the Brits are really motivated to leave the EU, what a brilliant idea.

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  3. el Avatar
    el

    Do you know which part Greece plays in what’s going on? Here it’s blamed for letting migrants into the country:

    Belgium has called for vast refugee camps holding up to 300,000 refugees to be built in Greece in a desperate attempt to stem the flow of migrants from Syria and other nations outside Europe.

    At an emergency summit of European leaders yesterday, Belgian migration minister Theo Francken raised the spectre of setting up ‘closed facilities’ in Greece to be operated by the EU.

    He said that the Greeks ‘now need to bear the consequences’ of being too weak to guard their own borders and called for Athens to face an EU ‘sanction mechanism’ under which the rising number of refugees entering the country would be forced to stay there.
    …
    German interior minister Thomas de Maiziere insisted Greece would have to ‘do its duty’, and Austria’s interior minister, Johanna Mikl-Leitner, said: ‘It’s a myth that Greece can’t secure its borders. ‘It has one of Europe’s largest navies.’

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3415405/Calls-Britain-send-Army-protect-Europe-s-borders.html

    I think I see a pattern here. Germany is the unquestionable sole leader of Europe AND Merkel gave the impression of inviting everybody AND Germany holds true to this promise by supplying generous welfare payments to migrants, YET German politicians blame everybody but themselves for the crisis and Greeks should save Germans from themselves by single-handedly stopping all migrants.

    Also, if everybody is a part of EU, why should Greeks be the only ones responsible for their borders’ protection, when those are natural European borders? Germany tells them how to manage their economy, forces other European countries to follow German migration policy, yet there isn’t a single EU military force and Greece is left alone.

    Want to ask something basic I fail to understand: what are Greeks supposed to do with migrants reaching their shores? Suppose they say “we are Syrian refugees,” will Germany support Greece sending them back? I googled and found:

    \ Desperate people crowd into decrepit ships, and often are placed in perilous situations by unscrupulous people-smugglers. The headlines are full of tragedies, and many more go undetected. The scale of the problem is hard to measure, as many ships and bodies disappear into the sea.

    Is Greece expected to turn decrepit ships away and do nothing when they sink? What?

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    1. Clarissa Avatar
      Clarissa

      Greece is now Europe’s reviled and persecuted Other. There is nothing that Greeks can do to not be classed as villains. That’s now their role. They are black sheep who mess up and help everybody else look better compared to them. The only thing that will save them is for another country in Europe to be saddled with this role.

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      1. el Avatar
        el

        \ Greece is now Europe’s reviled and persecuted Other.

        Ok, fine. Still Greece should confront Germans and others by asking those questions and demanding public answers. Let those EU politicians squirm and try to justify their behavior of blaming Greece and doing nothing to very unhappy voters in their own countries.

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        1. Clarissa Avatar
          Clarissa

          “Still Greece should confront Germans and others by asking those questions and demanding public answers. ”

          • You probably never owed anybody a huge sum of money. Which is really great, of course. 🙂

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          1. el Avatar
            el

            \ You probably never owed anybody a huge sum of money. Which is really great, of course.

            I think countries are not like people and that surely Greece has some power too. Would Germany wish for Greece to exit EU, for instance, and truly stop protecting its borders from migrants after that?

            By keeping quiet, Greece only makes the already being planned path of punishing
            “the black sheep” (and destroying its economy much more) easier. To some outsiders, it seems as if Greeks themselves agree with the accusations, thus the silence.

            I do not think quietly taking abuse while being set up as a scapegoat is the best course of action, debt or no debt. Neither for a person nor for a nation.

            Many voters in EU countries are ready to support “lets protect our borders from migrants” policies, Greeks should take advantage of that.

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