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Leftist "mikmak"

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Here's a nice reprinted quote of Dutch comedian Freek de Jonge which I found in the Rails magazine on the train:

Was that radicalism indeed original? Was it indeed upstanding to announce on stage who is decent and who isn't, without respect for other opinions? I now think: let's the thankful that conservative people in the sixties and seventies remained loyal to their "right" ideas. If we had gone overboard with that radical-left "mikmak", if the world healers had gotten in charge... then things would've looked scary. For real. Then we'd all be doomed.

Two things:

Firstly, what would a proper translation for "mikmak" be?

Secondly, this is a quote from August 1995. A quick glance at developments since then shows us: over-zealous application of political correctness, environmentalist fairytales branded global warming, five more years of Clinton, appeasement of Arafat, Che Guevara t-shirts, Anti-Flag, Michael Moore, the revival of communism and its socialist offspring socialism.. and so on.

We should indeed be very thankful we're not going overboard with leftist "mikmak". We're not doomed. Not at all.

(Posted under EU, not that radical leftism is restricted to Europe, as seen in the examples.)

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