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Updated: 4 Sep 11 10:09 CET
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One of the far-right Sweden Democrats' top politicians in Gothenburg has been charged with assaulting a bus driver.
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It's fascist to want to cleanse a country of everyone who was born abroad or who has foreign parents or relatives in such an interconnected world. Obviously in the past people didn't travel as much and the population was understandably more homogeneous but it would be a mistake to think that there aren't numerous foreign influences which have shaped and enriched Swedish culture over hundreds and even thousands of years.
1.: There was no Sweden "for thousands and thousands of years.
2.: There was always a genetic mingling with other Scandinavian people/ with people from northern and eastern Europe.
This "homogenous"-story is a myth. The same kind of mythological bullshit the Nazis used by the term "Arian".
The 3rd Worlders are also guilty of much more serious offences - wherever their colonies exist.
I didn't know you could use foreign backgrounds to hit people with... o_O Would a painting of XIX-century Japan work?
*wanders off to find a suitably foreign background to try this out*
just how sad is this? without witnessing what actually happened or being able to read any police investigation reports, he's already "betting" that white swede is morally superior and has more credibility than the immigrant, talking about racial profiling..... indeed "nothing wrong" with the homogeneous ethinical blueprint for the past "thousands and thousands of years" (geeeez), it's the hatred with whatever threshold you can pick up based on ethnicity, sexuality, gender...that are chilling.....if majority of the people think like that, then african americans will never gain equal rights, with the argument of "nothing wrong with that".....the world history is a history of integration, which very often goes through xenophobia - war - integration, we eventually become one anyways....there's only one race, mankind which comes from africa.
nowadays whenever SD got really questioned, they use islamization as a shield as it comes so convenient; yet does "making sweden swedish" sound like they are only targeting islamization? it's everybody that has merely a different apperance from them, the deeply rooted racism + awareness of political correctness lead to the fact that very often they can NOT even admit the racism buried in their subconsciousness...it's not that the majority of the people are too idiotic to comprehend what they're talking about, it's the true intention behind every noble excuse they have is not sth a true humantarian can bear, or anybody who knows that it's hypocritical to sit in a perfect bubble judging other's unfortunate while not taking any responsibility for the world.
You wrote and I quote "What's wrong with an "ethnically homogenous Sweden"? " Have you forgotten how Swedes migrated in millions to the USA around 200 years ago because of hardship at home(Sweden)?
Get this into your thick skull now an forever, "MIGRATION OF HUMANS AROUND THE WORLD IS NATURAL AND WILL CONTINUE TO HAPPEN UNTIL THY KINGDOM COME".
Yes!
It will also bring with it, dissension, war, hatred, prejudice, genocide and all those good things that happen when people move into another peoples "space" and vie for their resources.
Pacem in terris...LOL
@All the other SD people: Sweden's biggest problem is alcoholismn. A little weakness of your masterrace. You will end up like the northamerican Indians. Pregnant women, children... It' a desaster! And NO DIGNITY!
@The human brain in general: It is just impossible to break the rib of a healthy person just by "pushing". It needs a lot of power to break a rib manually. Who was this SD politician? Bruce Lee? And we have a witness. - Lucky! All this looks fishy, planned and staged - at least to me.
The only reason this made the news is that it`s an opportunity for the media to slam SD. What does the mans political affiliation have to do with the case? Nothing, but they sure make an effort to make it known.
The bus has a camera and it will show that no crime has taken place. There has actually already been an investigation but it was dropped. It has now reopend because the busdriver is considerd a civil servant.
Are you all really that stupid to belive that the bus driver kindly asked the old man if he had payed and then the next second, without any reason, the man hit the bus driver hard enough to brake his ribs?
My point is that there is more to this story than what is being reported. It has such a spin on it that it`s ridiculous. And the fact that it`s even is being reported is laughable. Regarding the witness I would like to know what he really saw and heard.
How is this even a news???
Because its involve a politician, and Sweden is a country where Politician are accountable for their wrongdoings, even if they buy chocolate with govts money,
that make Sweden a healthy democracy. also media is not demonizing SD they always make fool of themselves.
No one is saying that Mr. Black bowed in front of Mr. SD and ask for the ticket Mr. SD punch him in the chest but even if they were arguing ( which is not a crime ) Mr. SD Punch him which is a crime and called him name which is hate crime and he should be accountable for that.
So all politicans are held accountable? Like the 46 year old immigrant leftist in Kristianstad who raped a teen boy two months ago and is listed in Vänsterpartiet?
No, there is a different when it comes to which politicans are held accountable. And for what crimes.
So he punched him in the chest? You were there and saw this? There has already been an investigation which was dropped. That tells me enough to question this entire case. At the same time we know that there is a camera on the bus and that will tell the story like it is. No use to argue about it.
One of the eye opening books dealing with Swedish racism is Finns in the Shadow of the "Aryans" written by Aira Kemilääinen. The nature of this racism is xenophobia towards other peoples such as Finns, Sami and Baltic peoples and even distant Asians (often called Mongols by the Swedish racists, referring to Asians).
Kemilääinen, Aira. Finns in the Shadow of the "Aryans": Race Theories and Racism. Helsinki: Finnish Historical Society, 1998. 320 pp., ill.
Do you really think that SD was founded because there is no racism in Sweden? Wrong. There is and plenty,and I guess SD would have more members if Swedes were less coward to say what they really think about immigrants.
As far as the subject of this thread, let me ask some questions?
Why are some sure that the SD politician started all the fuzz?
Why don't you think that the opposite might be the truth?
How comes that SDs are always targeted as the criminals? O.K There has been some cases, but a sparrow does not make autumn.
Let's put our feet on the ground. When discussing politics and religion, we all will fall into Dante's Inferno. We all have our viewpoints and we will stick to them no matter what. But common sense is common sense and nothing else. Just by reading the story written in the infallible The Local, we can see that there are two sides to the story, like some debaters have posted here.
So, let's keep on believing what TL publishes here like if it was the Bible.
Of course I do not, but if it happens, I will be invited to a certain cource of action.
I ain't no Swede.
Some things that remain unclear after reading the article is, what was meant by "provoked". And what was the driver doing in the aile to begin with? And what was wrong with the ticket?
Anyway, even if the driver was terribly unfair and motivated by racism or somesuch, he is still captain of his bus, king of his domain, in my opinion. You do not push the driver out of the way and enter the bus without his expressed will. If the politician felt discriminated or provoked he should have simply left the bus. And followed it up if he felt like doing his civic duty. So no matter what happened, his behaviour is unacceptable, to me at least.
But when immigrants fill the jails, firebomb the police, and rape for sport we should never generalize.
The hypocrisy is hysterical.
Very well put.
what is your argument, if a leftest can rape a boy so its ok for Swedish Tea Party leader to assault someone??
And I was not their, neither do you I am just wrote about why it is a news ( and I think it should be in news ), and he should appear in the court and court will give a decision. I am not favoring an Immigrant buss driver because I dont like buss drivers they are arrogant, But I like politicians so I want them not to act like A** Holes.
No you have completly misunderstood. My argument is that some politicans, SD for exemple, gets more flak then other politicanseven tho they commit horrid crimes such as rape.
Well what`s written in the news is often not the entire story. Especially not when it involves SD.
It's also fascist to silence anyone who doesn't agree with the policies or with multikulti being shoved down their throat.
There needs to be democratic dialogue on the matter , not extremism on both sides.
Extremism is the worst way to handle extremism.
the bad thing is that it promotes the allready stiff censorship to anyone who is not a supporter of integrationists
I agree mate. Next time I see a black kill a white, and then the black gets arrested, it is a hate affair against the blacks.
Keep on turning a blind eye, and excusing the inexcusable, whites.