{"id":1985,"date":"2010-09-21T17:23:52","date_gmt":"2010-09-21T17:23:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/?p=1985"},"modified":"2010-09-21T17:23:52","modified_gmt":"2010-09-21T17:23:52","slug":"sweden-takes-a-stand-for-racial-tolerance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/sweden-takes-a-stand-for-racial-tolerance\/","title":{"rendered":"Sweden takes a stand for racial tolerance"},"content":{"rendered":"

Before we move on with crayfish parties, eating manners,\u00a0surstr\u00f6mming (awfully smelling fermented fish in a\u00a0tin can)\u00a0and other non-political stuff, let’s just quickly focus on what’s happening in post-election Sweden at the moment.<\/p>\n

As we all know by now, the right wing Sweden Democrats secured 5.7 percent of the vote and 20 seats in the parliment. Apart from causing a very complicated political situation,\u00a0this has created a massive stir amongst the Swedes. Yesterday, a\u00a0crowd of around 6,000 people gathered in central Stockholm to demonstrate against racism. With bannners stating \u00a0“Yes to togetherness, No to racism” and “No racists in parliament,” the crowd showed their disapproval to the election results and similar demonstrations\u00a0 were held in Gothenburg and Malm\u00f6 as well. All the gatherings were spontaneously organised by people via Facebook and Twitter, amongst them \u00a0a 17-year-old girl from a Stockholm suburb, Felicia Margineanu,\u00a0who got the 6000 people in Stockholm together through a protest call on her Facebook page.<\/a><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Demonstrations, flashmobs, Facebook groups\u00a0and protests are\u00a0 happening and are being formed all over Sweden right now and Aftonbladet, Sweden’s<\/a> biggest tabloid magazine Aftonbladet, has started a massive campaign. It called “Vi gillar olika” (We like different) and 270 000 Swedes has joined so far. If you want to join, click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

There’s much that can be said about the voting result, the Sweden Democrats and the political sitiuation in Sweden at the moment, but\u00a0like Marcus, nor I’m no political scientist or expert.\u00a0I prefer to focus on\u00a0everyone up there who is taking the fight, creating a stir and who\u00a0are raising their unhappy voices. No matter what\u00a0is causing it,\u00a0I think it’s fantastic to\u00a0see people come togheter and join forces like this.\u00a0That, if anything, makes me proud to be Swede.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\"\"

Before we move on with crayfish parties, eating manners,\u00a0surstr\u00f6mming (awfully smelling fermented fish in a\u00a0tin can)\u00a0and other non-political stuff, let’s just quickly focus on what’s happening in post-election Sweden at the moment. As we all know by now, the right wing Sweden Democrats secured 5.7 percent of the vote and 20 seats in the parliment…<\/p>\n

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