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Sometimes one wonder if the far right troll online destroy for themselves. I used to think that Budapest was a really nice city. I used to think that islamic extremist was a bigger threat to democracy than far right extremism. Today I have exchanged two comments with a far right, Hungarian guy. He lectured me that I’m living in a dictatorship and a war zone. Why does anyone has the need to write a thing like that? Anyway, now I think the far right , with their lies, is the bigger threat and that Hungary is a shit hole country that just wants our money (via the European union). The thing is, the way the digital media giants feeds us desinformation and hate and bullying is f**king insane. Sweden likely is a good example of that. From rationalwiki Being a Swede on the internet has to be a pretty wild ride, what with both the left and right using your country as the go-to example of being either a flawless utopia (it's not) or a failed state brimming with rapefugees (it's not). Okay maybe I’m overreacting, at least with the anti-hungarian thing (the criticism of Silicon Valley I think they deserve).

I can be an outsider who walks through society and describe it. Describe the state they think is a failed state. Last weekend they had organised a big screen showing on the town square of the movie Sami blood: Elle Marja, 14, is a reindeer-breeding Sámi girl. Exposed to the racism of the 1930's and race biology examinations at her boarding school, she starts dreaming of another life. To achieve this other life, she has to become someone else and break all ties with her family and culture. I was there to watch some of the movie and to see if anyone I know was there. To be an observer. And yes, back in 1930s, when they thought the phrase “race hygiene” was more than a pseudoscience, race biology was really big. Sweden was the first country to create an institute for racial biology. This in contrast to the last decade. The same country decided to take in refugees on a larger scale than our neighbouring countries would ever dream about doing. We went from racism being mainstream to the other end. If my high school knowledge of Hegel is anything to go after the first, race hygiene, is a thesis, while mass immigration is the antithesis. Lets see if we’ll get a synthesis of those two.


Sure this country has problems. I’m not saying anything else. For example the growing inequality between the rich and poor (however I don’t think I’m crazy if I say other countries have the same problem). On the other hand, to write another observation, the other day I saw a poster on a bulletin board informing in six language that you could take your baby to the city library and talk Swedish with other mothers. A thing like that can be enough to make me optimistic. And I recently read an article by a Syrian, or we should say Swedish of Syrian background, claiming that the Syrian war, as tragic as it is, for us has lead to: “that Sweden has had its greatest academic influx so far, highly trained engineers, doctors and economists of working age who can quickly contribute to society.” I hope he is right. A quarter of a century ago we could successfully take in 100000 Bosnians during the Yugoslavian war. I’m not only writing that since I, half a decade ago, had kind of a crush on a girl with Bosnian background. The Local says so too, also the Washinton post. So a quarter of a century in the future it might turn out it was a good thing to take in Syrian refugees. I have myself seen classroom there they have teached Swedish to Syrians doctors and nurses. If that’s a drop in the sea, or if it really makes a different, I don’t know. At the end, I could write so much more on migration. I haven’t even mentioned any personal experience on immigrants. However turning this into a blog just about my thoughts about one subject? No, that’s not what I want.

Oh, yeah, the movie. I met a guy I know, but he had already seen the movie and he left. It was cold. They sold coffee and reindeer taco - you know you’re in northern Scandinavia when you see reindeer taco for sale. I thought the movie was supposed to start at 14.00. However when I left a quarter over two, the movie still hadn’t started. What had started at two o’clock was an interview with the woman behind the movie. Now I know her background, but I still haven’t seen the movie.

Yeah, we screwed up the weather.

So have you all seen the claim it recently has been warmer in Reykjavik than in Rome. For reasons I don’t know the extreme warm in the Arctic leads to cold weather in Europe.