One thing that needs to be noted is that the comparison to wolves isn't entirely random, it's also a current topic of political discussion in Denmark.
He's saying that he wants the homeless people who poop in the bushes deported because like wolves there are too many, and they're dangerous. People who poop in public are like that. It has very little to do with racism as far as I can tell.
I'm as liberal as they come, but I draw the line at shrubbery-shitting.
I was trying to reinforce it by saying the wolf comparison is a current public safety concern and has nothing to do with comparing Romani to actual animals.
Because wolves are being used as a dogwhistle/proxy for "migrants" by the far right.
Denmark has a problem with wolves crossing into Denmark. So the far right gives speeches about what a menace wolves are, they don't belong here, they don't deserve to be here, they're not FROM here" and so on - while doing a lot of theatrical smiling and winking, or just shifting right into talking about immigrants and migrants, "totally separately and unconnected, bro! I just wanted to talk about them both while i was here!"
You might want to not take anything David Hamburger Helper says at face value given he perpetuates far-right conspiracies / racist tropes like "Pakistani rape gangs."
That doesn't sound like a far right position though, just advocating for less or even no migration (from outside EU I guess).
Romania is part of the EU, when DHH suggests they are wolves that need to be deported, where is he suggesting they be deported to?
The history of their arrival in Romania, around 1370, is presented below.
Bear in mind the specific "gypsies" he had a bit of a rant about may well have been in 'his' country for a few generations already.
> That doesn't sound like a far right position though
And yet, they were on Hitler's list that included Jews, Gays, Disabled, Pinko's, etc.
Left, right, north or south on the political compass, all parties are in agreement about this, and thousands of people are deported from Denmark every year without Alligator Alcatraz concentration camps or other platitudes about nazism.
[1] https://europa.eu/youreurope/citizens/residence/residence-ri...
I'm guessing by the quotes on "gypsies" that these are not the Roma that have been in and out of Finland and Denmark since the 16th century .. but apparently still being used as a slur after several hundred years?
~ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finnish_Roma
Ah, well, baby steps.
Regarding terminology, many call themself "mustalainen" (literally "blackie", basically same as "gypsy" I guess) themselves. Although it can be considered offensive in some context, it's not exactly the same as dropping the n-word.
People just WANT to be mad, and they want this guys poor choice of words to mean he's somehow advocating for ethnic cleansing or violence or something. He's just an average conservative with an anti-immigration stance. Not a monster.
I never really took the conservative whining about cancel culture seriously, but I'm starting to understand how being caught up in something like this could drive someone from middle right to far right.
Current causes du jour for the left are defending a mother who killed her 3 children and an illegal immigrant who stabbed and killed a woman in broad daylight... Tell me in what world that's normal?
The lady that killed her kids went cuckoo, killed her kids and jumped out a window almost killing herself. Nobody is defending baby-murder, they're just saying 'Yeah, crazy people should get help BEFORE this junk happens.' The jurors agreed that she wasn't responsible for her actions at the time, and they weren't all left wing.
The other one... I think that you're talking about Carmen Lizet Puch? Literally no-one anywhere is defending that one. Maybe some weirdos on fringe internet forums, because there's always another nut out there willing to defend anything... Nobody in the mainstream from either side is defending it, but some right-wing folks are intentionally strawman'ing it as if someone were.
There's a lot of BS coming from both sides that could be avoided if the larger world followed the HN advice to always argue against the best version of the other persons argument, rather than to try and construct the weakest possible version and attack that.
You're literally inventing facts in your head. The jury was hung and a mistrial was just declared.
Nothing about my point changes. You're just looking for something about it to attack by trying to find the worst version of it again.
We're all (presumably) human, and we all make mistakes in phrasing, grammar, etc. Most of us don't have the time or motivation to craft every sentence into a finely honed razor of logical and grammatical accuracy, and shouldn't have to just to be understood.
DHH's statements were the same sort of thing. He could have said exactly the same thing with different words and nobody would have been angry, but he shouldn't have to.
People just WANT to find a reason to hate each other.
Nevertheless - I can empathize with your perspective if you believe he just said "he doesn't like people that move to his country and poop on the streets", because without knowing any previous history the reaction seems to escalate way too quickly. But there is a lot of context! And while you may disagree even after reading most of it, you can hopefully somewhat understand where people are coming from.
Even if you give DHH the benefit of the doubt by e.g. assuming he was unaware of his chosen metaphor's historical context regarding calls for deportations, he hasn't clarified or retracted or updated or whatever'ed anything. Given all his context over the years, I don't see how you can argue the issue to objectively be "he doesn't like people that move to his country and poop on the streets".
Hardly a conspiracy theory or a racist trope if it's true.
https://www.news18.com/world/pakistani-rape-gangs-operated-a...
The "official report" that gets bandied about by Reform UK is a fairly selective cut down from some other actual report on child abuse in the UK that puts more perspective on the full scale of the issue.
This is not "homeless pooping in the bushes," but just "gypsies". And the (very, very intentional) juxtaposition of killing wolves to deporting an entire ethnic group is revolting.