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Mind you this is roughly about the same time that mainstream global media were trying to push the whole "Greeks are lazy/scammy creatures by DNA" narrative in r
by tpoacher 5y ago
Mind you this is roughly about the same time that mainstream global media were trying to push the whole "Greeks are lazy/scammy creatures by DNA" narrative in response to Grexit.
I'd take any "tumultuousness" with a large grain of salt and focus on the man's careful and nuanced arguments instead. Particularly since much of what he warned about during his "tumultuous" term has in fact come true.
- dopidopHN 5y agoCompletely aside, but those specific events is when I personally started to see Europe as problematic. ( I'm a European citizen, pay taxes there. Also : I'm the 'right' kind of European, because clearly and unfortunately: there is two kind, we started to see that in 2008 )
- pessimizer 5y ago> "Greeks are lazy/scammy creatures by DNA" narrative in response to Grexit. And it was particularly disgusting because Greeks and Poles worked (and work) more hours per year than anyone else in Europe.
- arinlen 5y ago> Mind you this is roughly about the same time that mainstream global media were trying to push the whole "Greeks are lazy/scammy creatures by DNA" narrative in response to Grexit. This scapegoat has no credibility. At the same time all countries submitted to a bailout program (Portugal, Ireland, and also Spain and Italy) were actually recovering, and only Varoufakis's Greece insisted on purposely sabotaging their recovery process. We're talking about the same mastermind who thought it was a good idea to at the same time demand free money from Germany while throwing around references to Nazi Germany.