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the government is going to have outlined “ghetto zones” in a legal definition, wherein which they are going to have double punishment for any crime.

these areas will be areas with high populations of muslim, immigrant and worker class people. meaning they are planning to give double the amount of punishment to people for living in poorer neighbourhoods with large amount of minority people.

this is a very transparent act. and they are trying to justify it by claiming it’s about maintaining the safety and peace of the country.

 “Under the provisions of the law, “ghetto” children from the age of one will spend 25 hours per week separated from their families in order to undergo classes in “Danish values.” These would include learning the Danish language as well as all about Easter and Christmas. If people fail to comply with the measures their welfare payments would be stopped.

However, in the eyes of the UN, the measures will only increase “racial discrimination against people of migrant origin” - further ‘ghettoizing’ them.

Other, more punitive measures, include a doubling in criminal sentences for crimes committed in these ghetto neighborhoods and a four-year prison sentence for parents who send their children back to their country of origin for extended periods of time. Calling such “coercive assimilation measures” ineffective, High Commissioner Zeid said the laws “run risk of fueling racial prejudice, xenophobia & intolerance.”

Echoing Zeid’s sentiments, Danish Social Democrat politician Yildiz Ajdogan - whose Tingbjerg constituency is classified as a ghetto - told the New York Times that Danes had already become so used to the harsh rhetoric peddled by anti-immigrant politicians that they no longer register the negative connotation of the word “ghetto” and its echoes of Nazi Germany’s separation of Jews.

But criticisms of the law have been dismissed by Justice Minister Soren Pape Poulsen: “To me this is about, no matter who lives in these areas and who they believe in, they have to profess to the values required to have a good life in Denmark,” he told the NYT.

In 2017, 66.5% of all non-Western immigrants to Denmark lived in “ghettos”, according to the housing ministry.

[source: UN rights office slams Denmark’s plans to take toddlers from ‘ghetto’ families for values classes]

My full piece from the BNHA AU zine from  a while ago. I just found the uncorrupted file recently, and I wanted you guys to see it. This is of a supernatural au that I’m writing a fic of (coming soon, maybe?)

Flower Shop Hitoshi and his (stray) cat, Voix