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White innocence: fighting racism in the Netherlands

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Zwarte Piet is racisme

Recently Doorbraak activist Joris Hanse was interviewed by Julia Alexeenko, a journalist connected to the independent medium 34mag.net from Belarus. Her article was published in Belarusian, Russian and English. Here’s the English version. Protesting against racism in the Netherlands, the home-country of liberalism? Joris Hanse, activist of the Doorbraak-group, is telling us why and how to fight capitalism, patriarchy, and

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Teachers can be racist too! An antisemite started the racist Zwarte Piet tradition

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Zwarte Piet is racisme

Last year Doorbraak activist Jennifer van Leijen initiated a campaign to stop the Dutch government from subsidizing blackface (Zwarte Piet or Black Pete) on children’s television. More than 10.000 people already signed. Van Leijen regularly writes updates. Here is number 13 (also read numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6/7, 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12). Yesterday, an item appeared

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The Golden Coach and Dutch Cultural Relativism

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Zwarte Piet is racisme

Last year Doorbraak activist Jennifer van Leijen initiated a campaign to stop the Dutch government from subsidizing blackface (Zwarte Piet or Black Pete) on children’s television. More than 10.000 people already signed. Van Leijen regularly writes updates. Here is number 12 (also read numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6/7, 8, 9, 10 and 11). When the actor and comedian

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Dutch police apologise for proud photo in blackface

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Zwarte Piet is racisme

Last year Doorbraak activist Jennifer van Leijen initiated a campaign to stop the Dutch government from subsidizing blackface (Zwarte Piet or Black Pete) on children’s television. More than 10.000 people already signed. Van Leijen regularly writes updates. Here is number 11 (also read numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6/7, 8, 9 and 10). The police from Arnhem-North posted a

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Dutch Prime minister Rutte approves of racist parade. Dutch media describe the parade as ‘festive”

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Zwarte Piet is racisme

Last year Doorbraak activist Jennifer van Leijen initiated a campaign to stop the Dutch government from subsidizing blackface (Zwarte Piet or Black Pete) on children’s television. Almost 10.000 people already signed. Van Leijen regularly writes updates. Here is number 10 (also read numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6/7, 8 and 9). In this weekend, and next weekend, there will

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Come to protest in Dokkum this Saturday against live televised blackface show

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Zwarte Piet is racisme

Last year Doorbraak activist Jennifer van Leijen initiated a campaign to stop the Dutch government from subsidizing blackface (Zwarte Piet or Black Pete) on children’s television. Almost 10.000 people already signed. Van Leijen regularly writes updates. Here is number 9 (also read numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6/7 and 8). There will be an important protest occurring this Saturday

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Some thoughts on why one shouldn’t debate Nazis

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I have great respect for Gary Younge and his work. I even have some appreciation for his attempt to interview Richard Spencer, one of the leading figures in the so-called “Alt-Right” (which, it needs to be stressed again, is basically newspeak for “neo-nazi”) movement. Younge expresses his reluctance to engage in a conversation with this person: “ordinarily giving someone like

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The Dutch government’s commitment to anti-discrimination is a sham!

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Zwarte Piet is racisme

Last year Doorbraak activist Jennifer van Leijen initiated a campaign to stop the Dutch government from subsidizing blackface (Zwarte Piet or Black Pete) on children’s television. Over 8,000 people already signed. Van Leijen regularly writes updates. Here is number 8 (also read numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6/7). Even when racism sells, schools shouldn’t buy it. Despite having

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Adding Chinese and Asian Black Petes just makes it all more racist: the white man as lord over people of various colours

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Zwarte Piet is racisme

Last year Doorbraak activist Jennifer van Leijen initiated a campaign to stop the Dutch government from subsidizing blackface (Zwarte Piet or Black Pete) on children’s television. Seven thousand people already signed. Van Leijen regularly writes updates. Here are numbers 6 and 7 (also read numbers 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5). 6. Utrecht anti discrimination initiative reveals suspicious flaws in

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Dutch study on the colonial war in Indonesia: “The students mark their own homework”

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Jeffry Pondaag

For more than ten years Jeffry Pondaag, chairman of the Komite Utang Kehormatan Belanda (Foundation Committee of Dutch Debts of Honour), has been successfully suing the Dutch State together with lawyer Liesbeth Zegveld and victims of the colonial war in Indonesia. Due to these lawsuits it has become increasingly difficult for the Dutch state to hush up the colonial violence

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