If it was a swedish journalist, it must have been Jens Ganman or Chang Frick or Mats Dagerlind.
I know Tim Pool visited years ago and our main-stream media nearly prolapsed that an "american right-wing christian conservative white supremacist" was allowed into the nation and even worse was allowed to move freely and report whatever he lik…
If it was a swedish journalist, it must have been Jens Ganman or Chang Frick or Mats Dagerlind.
I know Tim Pool visited years ago and our main-stream media nearly prolapsed that an "american right-wing christian conservative white supremacist" was allowed into the nation and even worse was allowed to move freely and report whatever he liked un-edited for political suitability.
I'm not making this up: these were the publicly expressed sentiments of our most prominent jounralists and not a few top-level politicians at the time.
It serves very well to show foreigners how extreme the "middle" swedish politics is: Tim Pool is considered to be one armband away from full nazi.
For many, even the act of partaking of other media than nation regime-loyal ones or state media is seen as beyond the pale, like a thing that's simply not done - no matter how they vote.
It probably reflects the circles I moved in, but I met quite a few Swedes who went hard in the other direction. There's a powerful undercurrent of reaction in Swedish society moving just beneath the surface.
The difference between what people will dare say in public and in private is sickening to me - it didn't used to be like that, just 20 years ago.
Being blacklisted is a real fear and a real thing, for the to-do and well-set middle-class that make up 2/3s of /swedish/ society.
If they trust you, they might own up in private (or to a foreigner, because then it's as if it doesn't count, somehow) and freely admit thinking stuff you could go to prison for, or worse get cancelled from society for.
It is liberating to them, a great unburdening becuase to them to speak your mind freely has been made into such a risk it feels almost alien.
It is also a dare. As I said, to be outspoken to a foreigner it is as if it doesn't counts as (or feels as) thought crime, and it is also a way of discovering it can be done.
I often feel something similar to that. I'm much less careful outside Canada and the US. In Sweden, outside professional circles, I wasn't very careful at all. As a foreigner the same rules don't apply.
If it was a swedish journalist, it must have been Jens Ganman or Chang Frick or Mats Dagerlind.
I know Tim Pool visited years ago and our main-stream media nearly prolapsed that an "american right-wing christian conservative white supremacist" was allowed into the nation and even worse was allowed to move freely and report whatever he liked un-edited for political suitability.
I'm not making this up: these were the publicly expressed sentiments of our most prominent jounralists and not a few top-level politicians at the time.
Yes, it was a Swedish journalist.
Hilarious that they'd describe the milquetoast libertarian Pool in such terms. I don't think he even goes to church, and in 2016 he was anti-Trump.
It serves very well to show foreigners how extreme the "middle" swedish politics is: Tim Pool is considered to be one armband away from full nazi.
For many, even the act of partaking of other media than nation regime-loyal ones or state media is seen as beyond the pale, like a thing that's simply not done - no matter how they vote.
It probably reflects the circles I moved in, but I met quite a few Swedes who went hard in the other direction. There's a powerful undercurrent of reaction in Swedish society moving just beneath the surface.
The difference between what people will dare say in public and in private is sickening to me - it didn't used to be like that, just 20 years ago.
Being blacklisted is a real fear and a real thing, for the to-do and well-set middle-class that make up 2/3s of /swedish/ society.
If they trust you, they might own up in private (or to a foreigner, because then it's as if it doesn't count, somehow) and freely admit thinking stuff you could go to prison for, or worse get cancelled from society for.
Interesting, the foreigner aspect. Indeed many Swedish men - all men - were quite candid with me in a politically incorrect fashion.
It is liberating to them, a great unburdening becuase to them to speak your mind freely has been made into such a risk it feels almost alien.
It is also a dare. As I said, to be outspoken to a foreigner it is as if it doesn't counts as (or feels as) thought crime, and it is also a way of discovering it can be done.
I often feel something similar to that. I'm much less careful outside Canada and the US. In Sweden, outside professional circles, I wasn't very careful at all. As a foreigner the same rules don't apply.