Sweden’s "Hate Speech" Laws Hateful—And Unequally Enforced

Sweden’s anti-hate speech laws have run amok, leading to a very worrying series of convictions—and non-convictions. More categories of people are entering the ranks of the “protected classes”—and recent cases have made it clear that these laws will not be enforced even-handedly.

No prize for guessing who is protected and who is not.

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Only one recent atrocity has made the slightest ripple in the United States: the case of Ake Green, pastor of a Pentecostal church in the east coast town of Borghol. He was convicted in July of "hate speech" against homosexuals. His views were strongly and publicly expressed—in a sermon. He preached that homosexuality is "abnormal, a horrible cancerous tumor in the body of society," and he supported this view with Bible verses.

Pastor Green was charged with "inciting hatred," and went on trial in June. He received a sentence of one month, though he is still free pending appeal.

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Needless to say, Swedish laws prohibiting "hate speech" against racial minorities have been vigorously enforced. There have, for example, been a number of gang-rapes of Swedish women by Muslim immigrants. But Swedes must be careful what they say about them. On May 25, neo-Nazi Bjorn Bjorkqvist was convicted and sentenced to two months in prison for writing, "I don’t think I am alone in feeling sick when reading about how Swedish girls are raped by immigrant hordes."

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In another recent case, a man living in the Bunkeflo neighborhood of Malmo sent an e-mail message to public officials saying he believed most Arabs were criminals, and that he opposed subsidies for them to move into his neighborhood. "Bunkeflo," he wrote, "was one of the last few refuges in Malmo where you could go out and not see Arabs loitering all around you."

This man managed to avoid prison—but had to pay a fine of 10 percent of his pre-tax income. Given Sweden’s high taxation rate, this represented a figure of close to 20 percent of his actual income.

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But the most spectacular case so far—and one completely ignored by American media—is that of Swedish feminist Joanna Rytel.

Earlier this year, she wrote an article called "I Will Never Give Birth to a White Man," for a major Swedish daily, Aftonbladet.

Rytel explained why she hates white men—they are selfish, exploitative, vain, and sex-crazed—and just to make things clear, she added, "no white men, please… I just puke on them, thank you very much."

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Members of the Swedish National Socialist Front—an admittedly neo-Nazi group—called the article to the attention of the Stockholm authorities. But they refused to indict Miss Rytel. In a letter dated April 19, prosecutor Göran Lambertz explained why:

"The purpose behind the law against incitement of ethnic hatred was to ensure legal protection for minority groups of different compositions and followers of different religions. Cases where people express themselves in a critical or derogatory way about men of ethnic Swedish background were not intended to be included in this law. Because of that, the content in this article cannot be considered incitement of ethnic hatred."

Liberal thought-police, coming soon to a United States near you.

It is amazing to me that in a "free" country, one can go to jail for objecting to gang-rape...if the victim is white and the rapists non-white. "Hate speech", indeed.

But it's not "hate speech" when it targets white people, apparently...

I'd give us twenty years, here in the states, before this comes to pass.

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"The purpose behind the law against incitement of ethnic hatred was to ensure legal protection for minority groups of different compositions and followers of different religions. Cases where people express themselves in a critical or derogatory way about men of ethnic Swedish background were not intended to be included in this law." reminds me of what the head of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights said:

"Civil rights laws were not passed to protect the rights of white men and do not apply to them."

It's amazing to me how blatantly racist anti-white figures can be without anyone caring.

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That is a screwed up law. I don't see how you can go to jail over those comments.

I see yoru point about "reverse discrimination". The laws should apply equally. If slander is illegal, then it should be illegal for everyone. I do think it is funny sometimes how things are. For instance we have a TV Chennal BET "Black entertainment television". Fine. But I would bet if someone came out with WET "White entertainment television" there would be a big problem. A even more flagerent example is here in the city of Philadelphia. Before the mayorial elections, a group of black city councilmen formed a group whose express purpose was to elect a black mayor. Now if this was a group of white councilmen forming a group to elect a white mayor, there would be all sorts of controversy.

This is my firm belief that secularists in government have in mind. You can see the same thing coming down thje road in Canada where they have begun to pull radio station licenses because of "hate speech."

Why is anyone suprised? It's Europe. The idea of Free Speech is completely alien to those people.

It is my duty, as a Finn, to explain this phenomenon.
*Ahem*
They are Swedes.


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@ S-S

watch what they do"

Spokesperson for the President

...you missed the part where it's inevitably leftist-leaning governments that institute this kind of thing. Liberals constantly seek to control other peoples hearts and minds, whether they like it or not.

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yeah, like the patriot Act and the quote from the Presidential spokesperson....

"But I would bet if someone came out with WET "White entertainment television" there would be a big problem"

no problem until they start replaying "Hee Haw"