Published: 7 Feb 13 07:10 CET | Print version
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Threats of extreme violence, murder, and rape plague the lives of many women who work in the spotlight in Sweden, but police often fail to act on the threats in part because they are delivered via emails or posts in online discussion threads..
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Why would you wish a 21 year old woman be raped and murdered for simply expressing her opinion about the design of a T-Shirt in a shop? What could possibly possess you to harbour such ill feeling towards somebody for making such a harmless comment?
I completely agree with her anyway. It's a sad reflection of the society we live in when we idolize a tattooed, gun-toting sex offender.
Female, or even male, journalists who self-sensor, for fear of annoying trolls, really should question whether they are cut out to be journalists at all.
Really, they were just simply "addressed" the rightwing groups and the SD right? I believe the right word here are "attack or demonize" not "addressed"...got it? When you demonize and attack somebody, what the f do you expect, a thank you?
What is most alarming are the reports that intimidation and threats of violence seem to be working because these women are self censoring. What about some pressure on the police to do their jobs?
To be threatened with violence for making a factual statement is attempting to censor someone. On both counts the police should take an interest. The first step to actual violence is making a threat and threats scare people.
Just cast your eye at some the comments directed at the journalists working on this website.
Search almost any article that addresses SD's chosen subject or feminism for example, and you'll find plenty of insults and aggression direct at the writer.
Journalists? No no, they are no such thing, they are muslims lovers, fiminist militants and lefty charlatants that try to spread the lefty propaganda that's all, not journalists! But like the chinese said, "beware what you wish for" lefties!