Saturday link extravaganza: “Zwarte Piet and Racism in The Netherlands” edition
Here’s a roundup of the latest links around the topic I’ve been covering all week: UN requests The Netherlands to stop harassing and intimidating Human …
Zwarte Piet, racism and gaslighting as a culture wide phenomenon in The Netherlands
As I read the statement by Rita Izsák, the UN advisor on Minority Issues and her eloquent remarks about the violent nature of Zwarte Piet’s …
On White Dutch people’s “feelings”, blackface, racism, lives worth cherishing
[Photo caption: a yellow sign with two silhouettes, next to a road, reads, in Dutch: denk aan onze kinderen] Sign reads, in Dutch, “Think of …
this is where I wanted to be today… Oudekerksplein
this is where I wanted to be today… Oudekerksplein I was in your neighborhood a few weeks ago and took some time to see something …
Members of Geert Wilders’ Party wear Neo-Nazi symbols in Dutch Parliament
via DutchNews.nl, Wilders’ MPs wear badges featuring Nazi-linked flag in parliament Four MPs from Geert Wilders’ anti-immigration PVV wore a badge in parliament on Wednesday featuring …
Curse the mighty powers, how I HATE the mediocrity of Netflix Netherlands
Last week Netflix started offering service (and I use that word in its most lose sense in this case) in The Netherlands. Since the first …
The Netherlands from the perspective of a very popular bookstore owner
Back in April, when the festivities for the new Dutch King Willem Alexander were arranged, the National Committee for the Inauguration (in The Netherlands, Kings …