Comments by "Lynott Parris" (@DenUitvreter) on "The Rubin Report"
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@Kayavod I remember him telling about what Van Leeuwenhoek saw through his microscope in 17th century Dutch Republic, micro-organisms, and he was all excited about how the scientific authority, the Royal Society checked his findings.
The Royal Society was a great idea to get more exchange of knowledge and science in England, which was struggling with the scientific revolution, it had no authority whatsoever and certainly not in the Dutch Republic over a very successfull cloth merchant and hobby scientist like Van Leeuwenhoek who knew he made the best/first miscroscope of the word.
He did write to the Royal Society, which was still in it's infancy, just like he wrote his findings to other European scientists, because that is what enthousiastic scientists do. But NdGT is such a sucker for a body of authority putting it's stamp on it and say 'this is official science and therefore fact now' . He desperately needs 'science' to be something official, coming from the top down, people who say 'this is approved science, and the rest isn't'. That's a fundamentally unscientific attitude. If science was up to be people like him, Einstein and Newton would still be a 100% right because they are his gods. They weren't, not a 100%, because they were scientists.
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Sharing a place is already quite something but you have to truly share it to be one community. Lots of Dutch muslims voted for Wilders and many others respect him for standing up for Dutch culture and values. Being internationally minded, welcoming and a melting pot has been Dutch culture for ages. Not mincing wordst too and Wilders can be a bit coarse.
The Dutch have had freedom of religion since 1579, when it was codified in the Union of Utrecht. There have always been different religions, lots of different denominations too, with different values living together here when catholics and protestants were still mass killing eachother everywhere else. The problem with muslims from muslim countries, Wilders is explicitely opposed to mass immigration from muslim countries, not opposed to any muslim immigrant, is that they expect islam to rule, rule the streets, the public spaces, the debate, allowed expression, blasphemy laws, etc. That's where it clashes with Dutch culture. They often don't understand that their freedom to be muslim in the Netherlands is the same right as everyone else's to be free from other people's religion and be as gay, blasphemous, judaistic, apostate or whatever as they want. If they understood that there is not much of a homogenity issue left. They will just be another addition to our wide range of religious nutcases.
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As a Dutchman (443 years an independent country) I feel she is on to a good metaphore that has crosses my mind more than once, the USA tends to change it's mind a bit quicker, tends to extremes, a bit wild, materialistic, competitive, energetic. But the problematic puberty is with the depressed, automutiling, identity confused, self neglecting, obsessed over her looks, often hysteric side which is the Democrats.
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