The Greek nationalist party Golden Dawn (which currently holds 18 seats in Greece’s parliament) has organised a charity to help the Greek people. Strangely enough, this charity has angered some anti-nationalist Leftists who claim to be all about helping poor and working class people. RT America has a rather biased report on this story:
Far-right Greek party Golden Dawn has taken to the streets of Athens, handing out food to Greeks coping with a worsening crisis. The event had a distinct nationalist odor, as people had to prove their citizenship in order to receive goods.
Hundreds lined up outside Parliament, where the extreme-right activists were giving away potatoes, pasta, milk and olive oil.
According to a Golden Dawn spokesperson, all the products were produced or distributed by local businesses.
To obtain food packages, those in line had to present their ID card to validate their citizenship.
We’ll skip the next part, which includes the standard allegation that the Greek nationalists are Nazis. This is what the anti-nationalists always say. Any nationalist who wants to prevent the destruction of his people is a Naziwhowantstokillsixmillionjews. Such is the apparent limit of their reasoning. Unless you support blending the Greeks out of existence you are a Nazi.
…Another scandalous move by the party was their proposition that only Greeks be permitted to donate blood to their fellow nationals.
…Golden Dawn successfully campaigned on spreading anti-immigrant sentiment. Public support for the party has dramatically increased, twenty-fold, since elections in 2009. This May, Golden Dawn gained 7 per cent of the vote at the parliamentary elections, managing to pass the threshold for the first time.
“They are exploiting people’s misery to fish for votes. They are despicable,” commented Petros Constantinou, a left-wing Athens city councilman.
Notice how Golden Dawn’s charitable efforts are described as having a ‘distinct nationalist odor’ (as if being nationalist stinks) and later in the article as being ‘scandalous.’ Notice Councilman Constantinou’s claim that patriots are ‘exploiting’ people by giving them food and blood. Bizarre.
Yes, RT certainly was doing a hit piece on the Greek nationalist party, which is rather strange considering how nationalistic Russia is today and has always been.
Even at the height of the Soviet Union’s power, it was always about what was good for “mother Russia”.
O the horrors of helping you kin out. I can only imagine what other horrible crimes they might commit next.
I think it is hilarious that a left winger is complaining about someone “exploiting people’s misery to fish for votes. They are despicable” seeing as that has been the modus operandi of the international left for the last 130 years.
I know for a fact that the truth of the matter is that GD has been doing this kind of charitable giving to Greeks for at least the past five years. It is only NOW that it has come out in the press as being “despicable.” Much more than this food drive, efforts have been made by many Greek nationalists to provide lots and lots of food, as well as paying traffic tolls, giving out air conditioners, supplying power generators, driving the sick and elderly to appointments, and policing areas where immigrants are bringing in and engaging in drug dealing, prostitution, and child kidnapping. But of course they’re the “bad guys.” What a F^@#ed up world we live in!!!