Dutch Tolerance

Xandra Lammers and the radicalization of Ijburg My dear readers, before going any further with this post please have some tissues handy. You’re going to need them as I tell the sad tale of Xandra Lammers, a former labor party voter who now supports the PVV, the party of Geert …

Racial Discrimination in Amsterdam Temp Agencies THERE IS NO RACIAL DISCRIMINATION IN AMSTERDAM!  This must be true, as people keep saying it on Facebook. The most common argument used is,  “look at Amsterdam, we accept people from everywhere”.  I’ve always regarded this argument as being as shaky as a Dutch girl on …

Doe Maar Normaal or Rot Op Naar Je Eigen Land If you don’t like it here, rot op naar je eigen land. (Go back to your own country). Yes dear reader, the statement above is not from some nationalistic grandma in a sleepy Dutch village, angry about ungrateful immigrants protesting against Zwarte Piet. …

How to get into nightclubs in Breda if you’re not white What happens if you take three identically dressed white Dutchmen, Dutch-Moroccans and black men, and send them to clubs in different parts of the Netherlands to see if they can enter? That was the premise of a recent episode of Undercover in …

Ik ben geen racist maar…. Dutch tolerance is dead! It died a lonely, painful, and some would say shameful death. As the coffin was taken to the cemetery, people lined the streets and could be heard saying to each other,  “ik ben geen racist maar….Sylvana Simons”. Which brings me to the …

Changing Zwarte Piet is hard to do October 24th 2016 will go down in history as the day when the destruction of Dutch society began, from within!  RTL announced that as of 2016, none of their Sinterklaas programmes will feature a traditional blackface Zwarte Piet. The much loved (not black) ZP …

Dutch tolerance, just when I thought it was as dead as disco, out of blue it makes a grand return!  Which brings me to the subject of today’s post, the uitzwaaidag Islam, Dutch tolerance strikes back! Another day another uitzwaaidag event If social media had existed during the time of the NSDAP …

Political Correctness and Racism in the Netherlands One of my favorite songs by the late, great, David Bowie, has the line “turn and face the change ch ch changes.”  I mention this because there’s a hell of a lot of changes going on in the Netherlands at the moment. Finally, a taboo …

The Uitzwaai Dag for Sylvana Simons For my expat readers that are learning Dutch, here are some phrases from the Dutch language that you won’t normally learn in Dutch courses. jankneger, aandachtshoer,  Zeurpiet, Klaagpiet, Kutpiet, landverrader, kutwijf, sloerie, vieze teringhoer, zwarte doos, negermongool en aap.” All of these phrases, and …

Black schools in the Netherlands Recently the Shallow Man was walking through his neighborhood in Amsterdam when he came across a group of children wearing white t-shirts with the slogan ‘is dit wit genoeg voor u?”/is this white enough for you?’ I’ve no problem with creative marketing, but I felt …