The last of the far right Dutchmen: "Betray your leftist teacher" – 31/03/2019

For the Forum for Democracy (FVD), a Dutch far-right party, Most Voted in Recent Senate Elections, education "is in the hands of the far left" and therefore encourages students and parents to betray teachers anonymously via a virtual platform.

The leader of the FVD, Thierry Baudet, announced this initiative during an electoral act which aimed to highlight "the influence of left-wing ideas in education".

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To do this, they created a webpage that collects information about teachers, textbook cut-outs, or exam questions that demonstrate "existing indoctrination in schools and universities."

FvD secretary Rob Roken said in a video of the game that they receive information "daily from students and parents".

The Institute of the Renaissance, the "scientific office" of the Forum for Democracy, will be responsible for conducting a study to establish the causes and consequences of this "indoctrination". The data will not be made public, they said, but will be used to suggest improvements in education.

The educational community has already reacted. More than 500 university professors, researchers and professors from across the country have signed a letter stating that Mr. Baudet "has no interest in reducing prejudices in academic institutions, but that he is interested in selectively reducing knowledge that does not match its political and ideological goals. "

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Tommy Derksen, professor at Arnhem, made public the letter in which he denounced himself. "History teaches us the excesses that lead to denunciations and intimidation, I'm not afraid, so I would be honored if I could add my name to the list"he wrote.

The Minister of Education, Ingrid van Engelshoven, responded to the proposal on his Twitter account: "the society is based on the work and knowledge of scientists and teachers, we must protect academic freedom, not the to question, "he pointed.

In the meantime, the initiative has not been paralyzed and the Forum for Democracy continues to collect data.

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The virtual claims portal is actually a Dutch version of the "Neutral Schools" page, launched by the far-right Alternative Party for Germany at the beginning of the 2018/19 course in Hamburg. In this one, anonymous messages are received against teachers and teachers criticizing political training in clbad.

In the case of the Netherlands, the Forum for Democracy also encourages the collection of examples of oikophobia in education. This term, introduced by Baudet into the Dutch political vocabulary, refers to a supposed aversion to national culture and identity.

For example, any negative mention of the most controversial moments in the Netherlands, such as slavery in the Dutch East Indies or the West Indies, would risk being denounced.

Professor Oberlin University, Sebastiaan Faber, explained that "one of the taboos of the Netherlands is patriotism for a long time".

As in Germany, "the right-thinking clbades did not hang a Dutch flag, sang the national anthem or spoke with pride about the history of their homeland" because of the guilt feelings flowing from " their colonial history or his collaboration with the Nazis"

However, The Netherlands has acquired a conservative nationalist turn in recent years. This crystallized in Baudet's victory in the senatorial elections two weeks ago, but he had a crucial moment during the 2017 election campaign for an action by the current Prime Minister, Mark Rutte. says Faber.

A few weeks before the elections, the president wrote a letter that had a considerable impact on the public. In this document, immigrants invited to leave who do not integrate the country and included in this category "those who qualify the normal Dutch as racist".

For the professor at the University of Oberlin, in Dutch society racist antecedents persist. He gives as an example the myth of "Pedro el Negro", a black slave carrying the gifts of the Dutch Santa Claus, Sinterklaas.

The United Nations Commission on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination criticized the tradition, but that does not prevent Thousands of people disguise the character every year.

EFE Agency.

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