Danish Jim Crow laws.

“What is the name of the big staircase in Rome?”

I don’t know, and I spent a week in Rome. This is a wypipo pop-culture trivia question that has fuck-all to do with parenting.

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The answer is the Spanish Steps.
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If you want to become a naturalised Danish citizen, one of the hoops you have to jump through is to pass a multiple choice trivia quiz with questions such as:
- What demographic did the "Radical Left" party represent when it was founded in 1905? (Smallholders)
- When was "the Christian Danish church" founded (the Viking age)
- What person was associated with the folk high school movement in the 19th century (NFS Grundtvig)

Some of the questions requires participants to parrot state propaganda, such as answering that Greenland ceased to be a colony in 1953.

It is deeply unserious.

Keira is one of countless Greenlandic women in Denmark who have been separated from their children after undergoing highly controversial “parenting competency” tests (known as forældrekompetenceundersøgelse or FKU) used by social services to assess whether parents are suitable to care for their children.

What the flying fuck. She doesn’t speak Danish and wasn’t provided a translator for the test, resulting in her 3 children to be “removed”.

Another hoop you have to jump through in order to become a citizen is that you have to give the local mayor a handshake (skin-to-skin contact legally required). This is considered so important that it was upheld even at the height of COVID.

The reason for this bizarre rule is that chuds convicted themselves that shaking the hand of a woman was some kind of cryptonite to scary "Islamists". But the mayor is more likely to be a man than a woman, you say. Yes. That is true. It is ridiculous even on its own terms.