Tij van den Brink thinks we should stop Kanye West at the border, but Ronald Molendijk thinks the CDA MP is hypocritical. “He comes from the EO and from the church! Wrong!”
Kanye West, currently active as rapper Ye, is not allowed to enter the United Kingdom because of his anti-Semitic statements. A majority of the House of Representatives also wants to prevent his actions in our country. He has called himself ‘a Nazi’ in the past, and he has made a quite questionable song called Heil Hitler.
Total imbecile
Private boss Evert Santegoeds wants politicians to do everything they can to stop this. “In Arnhem, of all places, one of the cities that suffered the most under Hitler. 4,000 people died in a few hours,” he says in Show news.
He continues: “It is also on June 6, on D-Day, a historic date in the Second World War, and then that fool over there, an absolute imbecile, stands on one of the largest stages in the Netherlands with the risk that he will repeat these types of texts.”
Tijs is critical
Then Tijs van den Brink comes into the picture. The former TV presenter is now a CDA MP and is angry about it. “Yes, I’m disappointed, because the man has made extremely anti-Semitic statements. He has written a song entitled: ‘Heil Hitler.’ He has also performed wearing a T-shirt with a swastika.”
He continues: “I really don’t like that and it’s a very bad signal to young people. I would really like it to be banned. I understand that the minister has said that he cannot do that. I’m disappointed about that, I think it’s a shame and I hope he keeps trying until June. We still have a while.”
Young audience
Tijs also calls on the organization to boycott this. “I would like to say to them: ‘Do you actually want this yourself? Do you want to offer a platform to someone with these kinds of statements?’ It is for a predominantly young audience, where we know that many people’s knowledge of the Holocaust is not up to date.”
“That they don’t know what happened then. It seems very inhumane to me. I especially call on the minister to investigate what he can do. If he says: ‘I can’t do it anymore’, then I call on the Gelredome: ‘Will you think again. Do you want to post this? Do you want to offer a platform for this?'”
At the church
Ronald Molendijk thinks Tijs is hypocritical. He points out that Kanye has already apologized. “I understand all the sentiments, but we also live in the Netherlands, where freedom of expression is a great asset.”
He concludes with a sneer at the CDA politician: “I just saw another political figure who came from the church at the EO. The church has done more than enough wrong things to boys in the past, they also apologize for that and then we just carry on.”
