In a clear attempt to cash in on the anti-immigration sentiment, Sweden Democrat party secretary Björn Söder said that minorities like the Saami could never be Swedes and was willing to pay immigrants to leave the country, reports The Local.
The mere suggestion that Sweden is only a country of white Swedes reveals the racist and exclusive mindset of the Sweden Democrats. In a US context it would be something like encouraging Hispanics, blacks and other minorities to go back to where they came from because white USAmericans rule the country.
“Yes, and that is good,” Söder was quoted as saying on The Local. “We must make it easer for those considering moving back to their country. Then we’ll be in a better condition to create a society of common identity.”
Read full story here.
In Söder’s views, Jews, Kurds and the Sami are examples of groups that are Swedish citizens but cannot be considered “true” Swedes if they don’t assimilate into Swedish society.
Has anybody asked Söder who is a so-called “true” Swede? Why does he think he is a “true” Swede? Is there any such thing as a “true” Swede?
What Söder is claiming is what is exactly wrong in the Nordic region. White Nordic people think that this land is exclusively theirs. This is malarkey.
The language of the Sweden Democrat party secretary is regurgitated by parties like the Perussuomalaiset (PS) of Finland, Danish People’s Party and Progress Party of Norway. All four of them believe that only white Nordic people are the right people that should live in this region.
Willy Silberstein, chairperson of the Swedish committee against anti-Semitism disagrees with Söder.
“I am Jewish and born in Sweden,” he said. “I am just as much Swedish as Björn Söder. There is an us and them mentality which I think is a characteristic of the party.”
While the PS in Finland have distanced themselves from the Sweden Democrats, their success in the March elections will be watched closely by the PS. Finland holds parliamentary elections in April 2015.
* The Finnish name for the Finns Party is the Perussuomalaiset (PS). The names adopted by the PS, like True Finns or Finns Party, promote in our opinion nativist nationalism and xenophobia. We therefore prefer to use the Finnish name of the party on our postings.
Did you read what he said?
No you didnt…….
SD can bitch and moan but they are too late and too little. Sweden as we have known it will be gone. 95000 asylum seekers a year? Nearly as many as annual births in a there. If those kind of numbers keep up, it will be clear native swedes will be a minority in their own country. Seeing there is already riots in immigrant suburbs and not enough work for everyone, one can wonder how successful the cultural diverse Sweden will be.
I personally don’t want Finland to take part in these kind of social experiments. There is no undoing the results if the Enrique’s cultural diverse pipedream fails, I would not take that huge risk!
Social experiments? Funny word. Your ancestors were a social experiment in that case too. Culturally diversity is here to stay.
“Culturally diversity is here to stay.”
And I wonder if we are better off with it. Personally I hope the SD does not get power in Sweden. Then Swedish can drive their insane immigration politics to its inevitable conclusion, and we can just hope its not too late then for us to find out the horrible outcome of their social experiment.