{"id":26597,"date":"2017-10-09T07:38:21","date_gmt":"2017-10-09T12:38:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=26597"},"modified":"2017-10-09T07:38:21","modified_gmt":"2017-10-09T12:38:21","slug":"diem25-europe-without-nations-or-religion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=26597","title":{"rendered":"DiEM25: Europe Without Nations or Religion"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\nFred Lyon Barbary Coast <\/b>1950<\/center>A friend sent me a post from the DiEM25 website last week, entitled Critique of DiEM25 policy on immigrants and refugees<\/a>. DiEM25 is a pan-European political movement of which former Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis is a co-founder.<\/p>\n

I started writing some lines as a response to my friend. Then it became a bit more. Wouldn\u2019t you know\u2026 And then it was a whole article. So here\u2019s my comments to it first, and then the original by someone calling themselves \u2018dross22\u2032. Now, in case I haven\u2019t made this sufficiently abundantly clear yet, in my view Yanis\u2019 knowledge and intellect is probably far superior to mine, and I\u2019m a fan. But\u2026<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t mean to imply that the views in the comment posted at DiEM25 are those of Yanis, but I do think it\u2019s good to point out that these views exist within the movement. Moreover, as I wrote a few days ago, Yanis himself also thinks the EU should become \u2018a federal state\u2019. And I don\u2019t agree with that. In fact, I think that\u2019s a sure-fire way to absolute mayhem. Catalonia is only the latest example of why that is. Greece is an obvious other.<\/p>\n

From that post on the DiEM25 site (see full text below):<\/p>\n

[..] .. local European nationalism must be eradicated by creating a common European state. But a progressive European state would inevitably require a sense of identity that, in true progressive spirit, is radically opposed to religion. It would be hypocrisy to exclude Islam. Pluralism of values is a weapon of the establishment and we have to do away with it. In a Europe that is green nobody can afford pluralism in regards to lifestyle choices.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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