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AnnaLandin
Dec '15

We have right wing parties that are the equivalent to the Republicans (though it should be said that even our right-wing parties are usually more left-leaning than the American equivalents; comes with having been a Socialist nation for so long) - but Sverigedemokraterna aren't just a right-wing political party. They're far right extremists, with members who literally used to be Neo-Nazis. Like, shaved heads and swastikas. When they first got into parliment, images got leaked to the press of one of their MPs at a Neo-Nazi meeting, dressed in a Hitler Jugend-uniform - brown shirt and all! - and heiling towards the camera.

Before the party polished up their rethoric and got into parliment and pretended to actually care about politics beyond "deport all immigrants!", their political pamphlets used to talk about the horrors of white Swedish women having children with men of colour, and how this destroyed the purity of the Nordic race. One of their local politicans in the south of Sweden actually wished, out loud, that she could stand on the bridge connecting Sweden and Denmark with a submachine gun and murder immigrants. This ain't your garden-variety "shut down the borders"-right-wingers - these are the "Hitler did nothing wrong"-right wingers.

Sweden has a long-standing problem with Neo-Nazis - Stormfront, Svenska motståndsrörelsen, Nordfront, etc., etc. - but in the last decade, they've started gaining real, political power, and that scares me witless.

zelkatsThe One Who Flags
Dec '15

This sentence alone has left me speechless.

AnnaLandin
Dec '15

@zelkats Me too. I think she was kicked out of the party, but the fact alone that she felt comfortable enough to say that goes to show that their attitude, at least internally in the party, allows that sort of opinion. There's tacit approval from the party leadership.

zelkatsThe One Who Flags
Dec '15
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Damn.. Sadly, plenty of politicians and political parties have gotten away with open hate speech. Topped with the fact that they're current or possible future leaders and have people voting for them, it just makes us shake our heads at humanity. I've heard plenty of stupid things from politicians from my homeland and the U.S. but the Swedish politicians you talked about probably take the cake. Extremist, much? :/

zelkatsThe One Who Flags
Dec '15

If you ever come across people like that, dare them to go to Japan and tell every single salary man in a business suit that they're stealing the British culture, lol.

AnnaLandin
Dec '15
SpavVy

There's an argument to be had about cultural appropriation and respect for other cultures, etc. I'm just not convinced hissy white teenagers on Tumblr are best equipped to have it. There tends to be less reasoned argument on Tumblr, and more vicious screaming. =.=

SpavVy
Dec '15
AnnaLandin

Yeah I can agree with that, the people on Tumblr tend to never have civilized arguments.
As for cultural appropriation I believe those hissy white teens really need to stop and think about (or educate themselves) on what's appropriate and what's not when it comes to culture appropriation but that's probably asking too much of them.

scythe
Dec '15

Pretty much all of the insanity going on on some US campuses right now. I believe some black students are even self-segregating now.

What else is there to say about that?

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manversusrock
Jul '16
joannekwan

I'd rather Elect Kim Jong Un instead of Trump as my next president!
He wouldn't worry about being politically correct. Un would have to act all toolish and presidential. He could act... UN-PRESIDENTIAL!
Say... that's not a bad idea.
tapastic.com/series/un-presidential

blackopsracing321
Jul '16

I recently watched a movie called Tusk. It's about a man who kidnaps people and mutilates them in the attempt to turn them into a walrus. The end result is a creature of nightmare's nightmare. Some things can't be unseen (rocks back and forth in the fetal position trembling).

eleoza
Jul '16

The fact that some people cry about dogs and cats being eaten in certain countries while they munch on their hamburgers made of cows. Every animal is equal in my opinion. All life has meaning.

NickRowler
Jul '16

Probably the uncensored declassified Holocaust photos which were labeled as being "too graphic" for the press but were still put in the government files to document what was going on. (I work at a place which archives video and photos)

A close second would have to be an old video of a "black face parade" which consisted of about 30 people in black face, 20 people in yellow face, and about 10 people dressed as penguins who also had black face.