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Need a Welfare Check? Just Threaten to Riot
"If you reward cruelty with kindness, with what do you reward kindness?"
--Hillel
You would think that governments as well as people in general would
understand that appeasing and rewarding negative behavior doesn't work. It's
basic psychology 101--but one that not even most psychology professors
understand or put to use. And apparently, this concept is foreign to many of
the politically correct persuasion outside the classroom as well--for them,
their feeling of moral "superiority" trumps human nature and causes liberals
to turn a blind eye to justice and acts of violence.
In Bruce Bawer's new book, While Europe Slept: How Radical Islam is
Destroying the West from Within,the side effects of the appeasement of
Muslims by the Danish government are clear--as their government pumps more
and more welfare money into the pockets of disgruntled Muslims, the rate of
violence against "infidels" there increases.
Bawer points out that in Denmark, Muslims make up only 5% of the population
but receive 40% of welfare outlays. Many of these immigrants are told by
their leaders that Muslim law gives them the right to "cheat and lie in the
countries that harbor them." They are told to view the benefits they receive
as jizya--the tributes that "the infidel natives of Muslim-occupied
countries are obliged to pay to Muslims in order to preserve their lives."
And the welfare offices in Denmark can be the setting for violence--termed
"culture clashes" by Danish journalists. "Some clients lay waste to social
security offices and hit social workers--not out of frustration but because
they've learned that bullying gets them what they want. The Danish
government is not repressive; welfare workers tend to be sympathetic and
eager to help. Many immigrants perceive this as weakness, and exploit it,
'tyrannizing' the social workers." The Danish solution? More PC
behavior--get translators to translate not only between languages but
between cultures. Yeah, that will work.
Having worked with social security disability clients for 15 years, I can
tell you that human nature is the same all over. The more competent clients
who had held jobs and had truly bad misfortunes happen to them were often
kind and treated me with respect. Those who had never worked, been fed a
steady diet of entittlement and justification of the "system owing them"
from family members and society were the most abusive, often threatening me
or treating me as an object to be used to get them what they wanted (not
that it worked one way or another--I just wrote an objective report
regardless of threats etc.). I learned to talk in a big booming voice that
commanded authority and never swayed from speaking in an objective
manner-of-fact tone. Once the potentially violent client saw that I was not
intimidated by threats or strong language, they often settled down and
cooperated. Too bad European countries haven't learned this
lesson--appeasement of violence doesn't work.
I think the last paragraph of Bower's book summarizes the conflict of the PC
Danish approach to conflict best:
"The irony was tragic: .......having instituted a welfare system meant to
safeguard every last one of them from so much as a moment's financial
insecurity, and having built up a culture of extraordinary freedom and
tolerance that promised each of them a life of absolute dignity and perfect
equality, postwar Dutch men and women had raised up their children into
tall, strapping, healthy, multilingual young adults--
....and yet they'd turned a blind eye to the very peril that would destroy
them."
Dutch cartoons anyone?