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[–] Boukert 1 points (+1|-0) Edited

These quotes are the big ones dominating Dutch media:

When one member of the audience suggested Suriname, Blok described the former Dutch colony as a ‘failed state’. ‘And that is largely to do with the ethnic divisions,’ he continued.

‘I have asked my ministry this and I will pose the question here as well,’ Blok said. ‘Give me an example of a multi-ethnic or a multi-cultural society, in which the original population still lives, and where there is a peaceful cohabitation. I don’t know one.’

"Probably somewhere deep in our genes is that we want to have a well-organized group to hunt along or to maintain a village and that we are not able to connect with unknown people."

General reaction from all sides off the political spectrum are disbelief and shock, I mean even the Dutch right populist PVV is asking severe questions in parliament about his extraordinary remarks.

[–] doggone [OP] 2 points (+2|-0)

I don't know anything about Suriname (or the Netherlands :), but I would have thought his comment on the Turkish bakery or about walking any street in Warsaw or Prague would have been the extraordinary remarks.

The quotes you have given sound like reasonable discussion material, other than not being PC.