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Cake day: June 13th, 2023

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  • I don’t speak Dutch so I’ll skip, I’ll take your word for it. I don’t respect him at all anymore, so there’s really not much to gain to go through translating that stuff.

    It can be boiled down to:

    • long paragraph about integration & friction
    • one sentence, “Act normal or go away!” (“Doe normaal of ga weg”)

    I have despised Rutte ever since that. And I was very disappointed in many Dutch people who seemed to shrug that off with “it’s a thing we say in Dutch - when someone acts annoying on a party, we also say that”. Yeah, no shit Sherlock. A party guest has a place to go to - their home. WHERE THE FUCK DO YOU EXPECT PEOPLE TO GO WHO WERE BORN HERE? Or who fled from war?

    It was a “lowest of the low” moments of Dutch racism. I have lived there for a couple of years, and I went in with positive prejudice, and left bitterly disappointed - the under-40 Dutch people in the cities are alright, but the older generation and those in the smaller villages were way more intolerant and way more racist that I was prepared for. And me being cis-caucasian, I heard all the shit-talk about foreigners because they thought they could speak freely around me.