Met updates – VVD Noord-Holland kind of distances itself from the ruling of Parliament and gives TPO debt
Sylvana Simons gets a prize from the province of Noord-Holland. The regional VVD does not think so. Member of Parliament Grethe van Geffen in her blog this Sunday:
“Simons is a female Wilders, a strong debater who knows how to make her point about the group division of people in the form of identity politics. Through the power of repetition, she is also able to convince a surprisingly large number of people of her vision that color and also sex are all-determining factors in relationships between people and in the structure of society: factors that cannot be escaped. That this is her personal experience is not a problem – the problem starts with the generalization of that experience, and the many collisions that arise in her contacts with people who remain attached to their own experience. Simons becomes involved in one conflict after another and, like Wilders, contributes to the polarization in society. That is allowed, but it is not an example. “
Update 22.50 – Annabel Nanninga (JA21), also Member of Parliament in North Holland:
Strange. You should be proud of her instead of scared clippers for the wokies. A VVD person with his own voice and a backbone, rare.
– Annabel Nanninga (@ANanninga) March 7, 2021
Update 22.39 – Van Geffen seems somewhat shocked by her criticism of Simons. She says:
Hi @baspaternotte my blog was on a personal title and not on behalf of the VVD so nice if you change the title and first sentence accordingly? Thanks in advance. https://t.co/8L9NSLf5cN
– Grethe van Geffen (@GvanGeffen) March 7, 2021
That is not entirely true, because earlier on Sunday she really complained as a Member of Parliament:
Sylvana Simons will receive the Ribbius Peletier medal from 8 March @ProvincieNH . A very undesirable development, as a member of parliament #psnh I expressly distance myself from that. Read here why: https://t.co/9lNfuzSZk4
– Grethe van Geffen (@GvanGeffen) March 7, 2021
But the VVD Noord-Holland thinks differently about that:
@vvdnh distances itself from this suggestion that TPO makes. @GvanGeffen spoke in a personal capacity and not on behalf of @vvdnh.
– VVD North Holland (@vvdnh) March 7, 2021
Simons in a comment on Twitter:
Because I received a prize for resisting hatred in the form of sexism and racism and that is not possible.
But without a joke: I will hand in the prize immediately if all men who are not “of unspoken conduct” hand in their prizes and positions of power. https://t.co/IQo9oGh3kA— Sylvana Simons (@SylvanaBIJ1) March 7, 2021
Well, I forget to ask in the haste whether you had already distanced yourself from your VVD colleague @ericvanderburg? The man I am referring to in my acceptance speech for yelling at me to “know my place, be quiet and sit humble test approach”?
No certainly? https://t.co/IQo9oGh3kA
— Sylvana Simons (@SylvanaBIJ1) March 7, 2021
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