Why is amsterdam so liberal

It's about actually believing me when I tell you who I am. Man Indigenous? That can be from any part of the world. I am a Native American. It's revealed at the end that the reason Max went on this anti-racism spree is because that morning he saw a white man yell at a black mother for her toddler running around the subway and he realized that would never happen to his white daughter.

This gets catastrophized to this mom "knowing there's always another guy who's ready to yell at her kid or make him feel small or one day Of course, anyone watching tv would think that the deadliest, most ever-present threat to black children is white people, but this is simply not the case.

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Free Speech. Dark Mode. About Us Contact Us. Alexa Moutevelis. Text to Speech. Read More. Amsterdam's liberalism is important in itself, but also because it was exported, not just to North America but also, through the Glorious Revolution , to Britain and its empire, and to the rest of Europe through the writings of Spinoza.

An obvious problem with city history is that cities themselves are so rarely independent actors and often what is most interesting about them happens elsewhere. Shorto deals with this problem through the merry expedient of just ignoring it. This creates all kinds of oddities. There is no discussion, for example, of the powerful influence of its German neighbours on Amsterdam.

Even stranger is that Shorto is effectively unable to come up with a way of integrating or even starting to explain the complex relationship with The Hague or the resentments and aspirations of other Dutch towns. Above all, he seems to see something natural, special and organic about Amsterdam's freedom. But the city could equally be seen as just a fortunate, remote northern survivor from what had once been a dense network of Low Country "liberal" trading cities, most of which were successfully crushed and normalised by French or Spanish troops.

The ghastly fate of its southern twin Antwerp, once the biggest importer in the world — its people slaughtered, the survivors violently recatholicised or expelled and its access to the sea blocked for two centuries — could easily have been shared by Amsterdam. On occasion, Shorto is good at wrecking his own argument for Amsterdam's baseline liberalism, by coming up with spectacular examples of city officials being no less terrible than the Spanish.

In the first throes of Protestantism, the city was the site of appalling scenes, as Anabaptists had their chests cut open and hearts pulled out to be smeared, still beating, on their faces. And once the Reformation had settled in, as the people of Scotland, New England and elsewhere can testify, there is nothing inherently whatever-bag-you're-into and free-wheeling about Calvinism.

Amsterdam's espousal of reform was accompanied, before and after, with ferocious violence. In his grim, well-handled, sections on the Holocaust in Amsterdam, Shorto shows how, under acute pressure, illiberal, mercenary or vicious strains in the population could be nurtured just as much as in the rest of Occupied Europe. Americans lock up seven times as many people per capita as do Western Europeans.

See this web page on coffeeshops. For centuries Amsterdam was a trade center of the world with sailors from every country. The attitude on prostitution is that it is going to happen anyway, so lets at least make it safe and tax it.

Generally prostitutes or sex workers, as they are known locally rent their space and run an independent business. There is no need for pimps to recruit business, provide safety, and take a share of the profits. They get their business license only if they are periodically checked by a physician, and follow practices to prevent the spread of disease. If she has a dangerous client, she pushes a button and the police appear promptly.

And there are hidden cameras in her rented space that are centrally monitored. Rooms with big windows under red lights display women in bras and panties who shake, wink, and beckon at the men walking by.

Tourists get a free show, but NO photos. See this web page on prostitution. The Netherlands was the first country in the world to make same sex marriage legal.