On 7/25/07, Brian Salter-Duke b_duke@bigpond.net.au wrote:
I was beginning to wonder whether the whole thing is a spoof, a kind of odd Swedish humour. After reading that page, I am even more convinced it is.
As the resident swede on the list I would like to point out that we aren't that funny. That page is probably a joke, but don't think for a second that there aren't people thinking those things.
This is exactly the brand of lunatics that we get here, and unfortunately they are getting more popular. In the recent (well, it was in september last year) election here a party called the "Sweden Democrats" got an alarmingly high number of votes. They didn't break the 4% barrier needed to be included in the parliament, but they got a significant percentage (almost 3%, if I recall) meaning that they will receive funding from the state to support their party for the next for years and money for their campaign in 2010. They also got positions in a number of municipal boards. They are the slightly less insane version of the Metapedia people, calling for a basically a total ban on immigration and the public beating of anyone daring to go near a Mosque. They are absolute scum, I wouldn't wipe my boots on anything they touch.
Different places in the world has different pathologies when it comes to these people. In America, they might be redneck yahoos who think Brown v. Board of Education was bad thing, here they tend to be faux-intellectuals who try to use Europe (and Sweden, in our case) as some beacon of light when they really just hate people with dark skin.
These are the things that a free society have to deal with. Fortunately, the Sweden Democrats are by far the most hated non-fringe party in Sweden, almost 70% of people actively despise them. In the end, reason will prevail.
--Oskar