Thursday, January 15, 2009

What's the point?

Yesterday in social studies, we were watching this short movie about the repression of muslim women. A turkish woman, who was born and raised in Denmark, was telling a group of policemen, specializing in that area, her story. A few from my class felt that it was very insulting, and the questions and suggestions the policemen stated were unacceptable. To a point I suppose they were. But the woman really annoyed me in some way, because she was blabbering about how she felt 100% danish, and couldn't understand why people still thought she was different. The problem is that she was so patriotic, that it seemed like she was against all danes. She was bitching about that the policemen were generalizing, when basically that was exactly what she was doing. She was saying how all 'the danes' were bad at integrating foreigners, and all these other stupid things .. Who said we are all like that? It's like when we say 'all muslims' are terrorists, or all muslims are violent and cause trouble. Many get angry when we generalize in that way, but what they don't realize is that they are doing the exact same thing.
It's like when being accused of being a racist. There is such a fine line between stating your opinion and being a racist these days. All you pretty much have to do is stare at a foreigner, and you are a racist. But when some immigrants come into our country, they think they can do whatever they want. And when I say that some of those immigrants are to blame for a hell of a lot of the violence these days, it's no lie. As mentioned, I've starting working at a law firm, where I am allowed to look through all files and cases. One thing I've noticed is that probably 90% of the crime cases are by immigrants .. And that's just in Sønderborg, where we hardly have any violence or stabbings like in Copenhagen and Århus. And I'm not saying anything about that danes don't do those things too, cause of course they do. I'm not saying that all immigrants are criminals either, not at all. But when you lay these facts out, many start to feel like we are insulting them, because they too are immigrants. And then you are suddenly a racist in many peoples eyes.
I also think that many fugitives, for example, take it for granted that they have been integrated into our society. Instead of appreciating that they have been given help, they find something about it to bitch about. If we are being racist for stating our opinions, then why is it such a taboo to say that they are being racist when some of them generalize just as much as those "racist" danes?

I don't even bother debating this with people anymore, together with of bunch of other things. I just don't see the point in it. It brings you absolutely nowhere these days. It really annoys me that when you try to explain this, and state your opinion, you don't get far before what you're saying is 'totally unacceptable' for some reason. It's a free world, and we have the right to freedom of speech, so why should we just sit and smile? Call me whatever you want, but I'm gonna speak what's on my mind..

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