The epitome of blindness
februar 19th, 2010
Dansk Folkeparti has been in the media the past day for excluding one of their members who encouraged violent action in a Facebook-group (see politiken.dk).
The party secretary of DF notes: ‘we don’t want anyone who professes extreme viewpoints’.
Not going into the oxymoronic nature of this statement in itself (as many would probably feel that the essence of DF is just that), it is very interesting that DF does not recognize the obvious fact that extreme viewpoints such as these are exactly what is created and even encouraged by their very rhetorics and general way of communicating to the public.
As Cypher says in the Matrix: ‘Ignorance is bliss’…
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