The Clash

[Joost Schuttelaar]

+1 :)

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Joost Schuttelaar
The Hague, NL

On Oct 10, 2010, at 21:30 , Martin Naef wrote:

> Kai,
> 
>> But it seems fascism is creeping back into our societies, our middle
>> class, our conservative newspapers, heck, even one of the
> 
> You're bringing up an interesting topic. It's been on my mind for quite 
> a while, looking around me and noticing what's happening.
> 
> I think there are two key quotes in your e-mail:
> 
>> (quoted directly from the interview) "If, like me, you didn't approve
>> of leftist ideas you were immediately branded a fascist" (also from
> 
> and
> 
>> TV anchorheads, talkshow guests and even hosts are increasingly
>> giving very simple answers to very complex problems.
> 
> There is a huge temptation to accept simple answers to complex problems. 
>  The trouble is: For a long time, those simple answers from the right 
> were deemed fascism, but questioning the equally simple answer "all is 
> well, we just have to be tolerant" was considered a taboo.
> 
> Now that the economy is worsening, people are scared about loosing their 
> way of life. That includes economic aspects, but also cultural things. 
> For a long time, those fears were oppressed instead of addressed.
> 
> It needs very complex explanations why it's a good thing to mix 
> cultures. Working at a very multinational corporation (we have over 20 
> different nationalities in our department alone), one starts to 
> appreciate it. But explain to somebody who's been serving local 
> customers with his local team for 30 years why he should suddenly start 
> speaking English during the meetings and get his engineering done in India.
> 
> I may be repeating myself: Don't go and protest against "fascism". Go 
> and explain to the people with fears why diversity is actually a good thing.
> 
> Martin
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