Tumblr - Shedding Light on European Issues, for Once

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sometimes tumblr's US-centric social justice makes me so freaking frustrated. Right now sweden's third biggest party are literally neo-nazis and our elections couldn't even get onto trending tags today, damit. Okay, so the post is gaining notes and people are confused, so to explain what the hell is going on Swedish elections held were on last Sunday, 14th September. We've had a right-leaning government the past eight years and after this there will be a change of power The new party. Socialdemocrats (S) gained a total of 31% percent. The old party, Moderatema (M) gained 21% Sverigedemokraterna (SD) gained a total of 12 996 Their policy is racist. Islamophobic, anti-immigration, anti-refugee, anti-diversity, anti-LGBT+, and anti-feminist. Basically, they tick every box on the douchebag lottery. If you're here to argue that theyre not actually Nazis: 1) Screw you 2) Screw the horse the you rode in on. 3) I hope you get stepped on by a moose, you ignorant asswipe 1. they literally started as neo nazis. They have used a Neo-Nazi 2. party members have assaulted immigrants with iron pipes (tw for racialised violence). 3. worn Nazi symbols 4. supported and helped build Neo-Nazi group SP There's probably more, but I don't have links on hand. They've been having rallies and demonstrations all over Sweden, and people have shown up just to turn their back on them and protest this post explains In the 2010 elections, SD were pretty much considered no better than neo-Nazis and only got 5.7% votes it put them in 6th place and was just enough to get them into parliament. In the elections before that, they got about 2.9%. In the past four years, they've grown exponentially in Sweden. They've also run extremely extensive PR campaigns, appealing to the youth kicking out members exposed" of being racist, (note: these members often end up in SVP) and picking up buzzwords from the Socialdemocrats 29% of votes they gained this year were from swing voter$ who previously voted M, and the biggest gain have been in the south, in small towns and the 2010 2014 S0 5% KD KD SD This is not something that's just going on in Sweden. Europe has seen an influx of extreme-right parties over the last decade or so, often thinly disguised as a party that puts traditional values' and 'national interest' first. In Greece and Netherlands, Italy, Greece, Finland France and UK, extreme-right-wing parties have been voted into the EU y they've already been in power. In Germany Because here's the thing: we've forgotten what it looks like. We've gotten to the point where we've turned Nazism into a cartoonish lampoon of goose- stepping, unforms and moral lessons that 'we'll never be like them, ignoring the fact nationalism is not as cut-and-dry two ends of an extreme but exists on a scale People have been apologising for SD's actions for a while now because they're not considered 'extremist enough to be neo-Nazis, because they don't share the same beliefs, because theyve "publicly denounced SVP But the same people still get hurt. Still SD has the institutional and systematic power and privilege to oppress, degrade and humiliate people of colour, which they already have done. Stop making excuses for them. Stop making leeways for right-wing-extremists because that is how they gain tract Please spread this.

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Dinonick

Sep 17, 2014 at 06:31PM EDT in reply to Not Another One

To paraphrase
"i fully support neo-nazis slowly taking control of european politics"
Come on guys do we really have to have another one? We have had a good track record so far. around 74 years.
Can we PLEASE have ONE world war that isnt in europe
Americans and brits are tired of saving france

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I am AHO Right?

Sep 17, 2014 at 05:55PM EDT

This. The rise of the reactionary-far-right in Europe is hella' 2spooky4me. Fear-mongering and scapegoating and all that jazz. Shit's so bad we're actually learning about it in school on this side of the pond, even though we rarely ever discuss Euro affairs. Crazy neo-Nazi bastards make the Tea Party look almost-kind-of-maybe-sensible.

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