Refugees are a group of people that’s very heterogenous. They don’t have one common way of treating Denmark. Except for the ‘asking Denmark for asylum’ of course.
Denmark does treat refugees a certain way, if by Denmark we mean their government, and not Danes in general. The government has certain policies which define their treatment. Basically they’re trying to win the race to the bottom: ‘treating them worse than other countries do’, hoping refugees will go to other countries instead. It’s a shortsighted tactic because now we here in the Netherlands as well as in other countries, are joining the race to the bottom. Which means collectively we are losing our humanity, while still largely getting equal amounts of refugees at our borders. Unless of course you’re willing treat people so poorly, that even a warzone is more acceptable. But what in the world are we defending if we are willing to lose all human decency over it?
Refugees are a group of people that’s very heterogenous. They don’t have one common way of treating Denmark. Except for the ‘asking Denmark for asylum’ of course.
Denmark does treat refugees a certain way, if by Denmark we mean their government, and not Danes in general. The government has certain policies which define their treatment. Basically they’re trying to win the race to the bottom: ‘treating them worse than other countries do’, hoping refugees will go to other countries instead. It’s a shortsighted tactic because now we here in the Netherlands as well as in other countries, are joining the race to the bottom. Which means collectively we are losing our humanity, while still largely getting equal amounts of refugees at our borders. Unless of course you’re willing treat people so poorly, that even a warzone is more acceptable. But what in the world are we defending if we are willing to lose all human decency over it?