Pim Fortuyn as politically correct anti-immigrant populist
example · Dutch politics ·
retold in 4 talks
Fortuyn opposed Muslims precisely on liberal-progressive grounds (they are racist, anti-feminist), making him a 'politically correct anti-immigrant populist', evidence that today's populism is not straightforwardly fascist.
≤2000talks it is told in, per year2026
As told 4
“He was, I cannot designate him other as a politically correct anti-immigrant populist.”
“his whole anti-immigrant movement was based on the fact that Muslims should not be allowed to enter because they are a threat precisely to our multicultural openness”
“What Pim Fortuyn embodied was the intersection between rightist populism and left-liberal political correctness.”
What it carries
one story, many jobs: the ideas this anecdote is deployed to argue, one tally mark per use (an idea page shows the same relation from the other end, as its shelf of stories)
contents · one story, 3 jobsuses
liberal fascism
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political correctness
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politically correct anti-immigrant
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Its cast and sources
populated by
Pim Fortuyn4Bob Avakian2Costis Lapavitsas1Frauke Petry1Frans Timmermans1Cecilia Malmström1H. G. Wells1Richard Sennett1
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Every retelling 4
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