I'm British, left leaning and married to an immigrant. The posts themselves don't come across as racist.
It's a fact in British politics we refuse to publish crime stats per ethnicity, but the Danes do, and it's fairly obvious that certain types of immigration aren't good for your society.
Of course, these are cultural problems usually linked to specific regions and socioeconomic backgrounds rather than actually race related, but we've been in a weird space for many years where it's racist to discuss the problems, and ergo when you do find people willing to discuss them, they do tend to be actually racist.
Which makes it hard to jump to defend DHH here, because you're unsure what you're missing. The sad thing is, the denial drives actual racism, because it's the only outlet to actually discuss the problems.
For those not aware, British population growth is about 10m in 20 years, largely immigration ( Births are below replacement rate ) and largely pushed to depress wages and expand the tax base to fund pensioners. There's also a lack of investment in services, we can no longer easily find a GP, Dentist, School spots, and house prices have become unreachable. It's more class warfare than race related.
You're leaving out the endorsement of noted racist Tommy Robinson here, whose raison d'être is to foment racial hatred. If you're married to an immigrant, I would have thought the end of the slippery slope would be as concerning to you as it is to me being married to a non-white person.
Tommy isn't even the most serious contender for the ethno-nationalist politics (remigration and nativism) being pushed in the more fringe parties here in the UK.
My read on DHH is that he's simply a sheltered 40 something rich guy who just has the most surface takes on political things, mainly influenced by whatever he sees on Twitter. He lives in Malibu, CA for one thing. If you're working in tech in California you'll definitely be working right along with many engineers from China or India. Both of which would be marked as non desirable by nativist parties in the UK.
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I'm British, left leaning and married to an immigrant. The posts themselves don't come across as racist.
It's a fact in British politics we refuse to publish crime stats per ethnicity, but the Danes do, and it's fairly obvious that certain types of immigration aren't good for your society.
Of course, these are cultural problems usually linked to specific regions and socioeconomic backgrounds rather than actually race related, but we've been in a weird space for many years where it's racist to discuss the problems, and ergo when you do find people willing to discuss them, they do tend to be actually racist.
Which makes it hard to jump to defend DHH here, because you're unsure what you're missing. The sad thing is, the denial drives actual racism, because it's the only outlet to actually discuss the problems.
For those not aware, British population growth is about 10m in 20 years, largely immigration ( Births are below replacement rate ) and largely pushed to depress wages and expand the tax base to fund pensioners. There's also a lack of investment in services, we can no longer easily find a GP, Dentist, School spots, and house prices have become unreachable. It's more class warfare than race related.
You're leaving out the endorsement of noted racist Tommy Robinson here, whose raison d'être is to foment racial hatred. If you're married to an immigrant, I would have thought the end of the slippery slope would be as concerning to you as it is to me being married to a non-white person.
I am concerned actually, and Tommy is a racist.
I guess my question there is, is DHH ignorant to who Tommy really is, or is it a full endorsement.
More likely than not a full endorsement, given DHH's multiple references to notoriously and openly racist "The Camp of the Saints", or this quote:
Tommy isn't even the most serious contender for the ethno-nationalist politics (remigration and nativism) being pushed in the more fringe parties here in the UK.
My read on DHH is that he's simply a sheltered 40 something rich guy who just has the most surface takes on political things, mainly influenced by whatever he sees on Twitter. He lives in Malibu, CA for one thing. If you're working in tech in California you'll definitely be working right along with many engineers from China or India. Both of which would be marked as non desirable by nativist parties in the UK.
Hell even himself as a Dane would be.