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Denmark Is A Liberal Paradise For Many People, But Not So For Poor Immigrants

Denmark is a liberal paradise for many people, but the reality is very different for immigrants


July 20, 2020

By Tara John and Susanne Gargiulo

Read More: https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/20/europ...ntl/index.html

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A new law aims to force changes in 15 housing estates across the country that the government calls "hard ghettos" -- which Danish regulations define partly according to the races of those who live in them. The law, which went into effect in July 2019, aims to change the social and ethnic make-up of low-income projects.

- The legislation compels housing associations to sell or redevelop 40% of public housing stock in these low-rent, ethnic minority enclaves. According to the housing and transport ministry, residents will be offered the chance to be rehomed in and around the same area. Anyone who refuses to leave will be evicted, according to the ministry. — Experts say no other modern European country has attempted to relocate their citizens in this way. The move, dubbed "the greatest social experiment of this century" by Danish media, has been lambasted by critics for targeting non-White Danes and immigrants.

- Eddie Omar Rosenberg Khawaja, the attorney representing the tenants, told CNN the subpoena in the case compares Mjolnerparken with a similar area, Byparken, in the town of Svendborg, west of Copenhagen. He argues that Byparken has roughly the same socio-economic challenges as Mjolnerparken -- there's just one difference: the majority of its residents are White. — The tough approach is part of the "One Denmark without parallel societies -- no ghettos in 2030" plan, which was proposed by the previous center-right government but is now being pushed through by the current left-wing coalition.

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Old Posted Jul 21, 2020, 3:22 PM
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Not a fan of this kind of thing, even if I support the logic behind it. Forcing people to move and regulating the racial makeup of housing is not only coercive and a violation of property rights, it’s also overtly racist in a 1960s Jim Crow sort of way one would think had been abolished anywhere in the western world.

IMO a better approach is through better integrated state run child care and schools, language classes, and not clustering public housing going forward.
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Any previous examples of this in other countries?
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Any previous examples of this in other countries?
Singapore purposely diivies up it's housing projects according to the racial makeup of the country, so that every scheme is intergrated and reflective of the broader national population.
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Not a fan of this kind of thing, even if I support the logic behind it. Forcing people to move and regulating the racial makeup of housing is not only coercive and a violation of property rights, it’s also overtly racist in a 1960s Jim Crow sort of way one would think had been abolished anywhere in the western world.

IMO a better approach is through better integrated state run child care and schools, language classes, and not clustering public housing going forward.
I was reading about some of their policies regarding recent immigrants or migrants and a lot of them seemed very Jim Crow-esque. I was shocked. I had figured every Western/Northern European country skipped that phase that America went through post-Civil War regarding racial equality/segregation.

It was just very bizarre....would not be shocked to see some type of Civil Rights Movement there in 20 or 30 years.
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