Oh, God... I find it rather fitting that I have not heard of that wheelchair episode until today, here. I believe it has flown under the radar, as it were.
I can comfirm that there is a very real tendency in the press and amongst the authorities of Sweden to report or describe incidents in a way that could reflect badly on immigrants and related areas. And it is absolute rubbish...
It's pathological, this unreasonable phobia of in any way, shape or form give wind in the sails of the nationalist groups, and it is utterly meaningless, of course, because this silence drives more and more people into their arms. And the attempts, well-meaning as they might be, to counter-act this does not help, either.
Then there is the spiking sex crime. Groups of foreign teenage men (some of which considerably older, but raising that sort of suspicion is racist) mugging and raping people as they see fit. Since they are legally children (and because up until very recently, it was the height of racism to suggest that they should be examined to verify their stated age), they recieve no punishment worth mentioning, besides perhaps a few months of detention at a juvenile treatment centre. The government, and large parts of the mainstream media, seems to believe that the best way to ensure these facts does not help the nationalists is to keep it quiet.
And, to put it bluntly, the ideological leaders and preachers of this self-destructive migration policy lose nothing. They can claim the nice feeling and the accolades of being "open and tolerant", while not having to pay the price. That falls to the general public. People who have to live with their decisions, and take the results and responsibilities that are inevitable when the only thing they will do is "the good thing to do", the "open hearted and tolerant" thing to do. When hard decisions that does not "feel right" are declined or avoided, and the results of it trickle down into the reality of the citizen. So many politicians and public servants can no longer be trusted to make hard decisions, like they should, and the public is paying the price for that.
Another interesting fact; the mainstream nationalist party (of sorts) is currently the third largest party in parliament. They are still treated as a political pariah, and many polititans that ought to know better are still prepared to do whatever it takes to deny them influence, to the detriment to everything else. This, of course, only makes it more popular, as a thorn in the side of the establishment. It cannot be strangled to death by refusing to play ball, and the first party group to swallow their pride and adjust to reality will have a great advantage.
It is a shame that the climate and the actions of polititians continue to feed their popularity, because as of now, none of the outspoken nationalist groups are fit to govern. Their policies are rough, half-baked and the candidates range from enthustiastic amateurs to ill-mannered thugs. And if, possibly when, they get a decisive hold of power, it will not be the fault of the "stupid, uneducated, selfish rednecks" (and equivolents)' fault. It will be the fault of those holding this miserable charade going.
Now, I cannot remember ever asking for all this. I do not want this, and I never did. Yet, there is this idea that this is what I want. Truth be told, I'd very much like my country back. I'm so awfully, awfully tired. Tired of it all. And, I suppose, ashamed of being Swedish. Ashamed to see what is happening. Tired, because there is not much one little man like I can do. It is like a nightmare.
And yet, packing my bags and going somewhere more reasonable would be worse. This creaking, rotting old ship (in a storm, with a fire in the galley, the captain dead-drunk and the rats establishing a caliphate in the cargo hold) is the one I'm stuck with, and the one I like best. I would rather fail in doing my part to it get back to harbour than watch it sink safely from afar.
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