The view from Sweden

What exactly are good tone and acceptable behaviour? Are they the same for everyone? Should we make special allowances for people if we are afraid of them? Or do we make such allowances simply because we believe they are incapable of any better? Doesn’t that make such a society institutionally racist? Recently Jimmie Åkesson, the […]

"Tensions in Swedish Society"

“Tensions in Swedish society “ “We must increase tolerance in society.” Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt, October 20, 2009. In August 2009 Swedish left-wing tabloid Aftonbladet tried to increase its popularity among radical left-wingers by publishing an article alleging that Israel engaged in the systematic killing of Palestinian Arabs in order to harvest their internal […]