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The Swedish left has gone completely off the rails, to the point where merely addressing a demographic shift gets you accused of spreading "racist propaganda". When the Swedish authorities cover up mass sexual assaults because they were committed by a particular group, that's not propaganda, that's just good work - we wouldn't want those imaginary SS divisions to take advantage of such inconvenient realities.

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This whole issue appears to be virtually unknown outside Scandinavian circles - and to some degree inside Sweden, whose print and broadcast media are to all intents and purposes heavily censored.

I had a Swedish girlfriend for a while. She moved to Denmark, where I live. And within a month changed her entire outlook on the demographics of her native land.

It is actually getting serious. Artists are jailed for their work in Sweden these days. Malmø is going out of control. The country is in a downward spiral of violence and chaos, and in deep, deep denial.

The merest mention of these issues automatically trigger the full brunt of rightist extremism accusations. And a predictable loss of karma points.

It's Denmark that's the outlier. By far the least welcoming to foreigners (i.e. "racist") of all Western countries. Source: Max Fischer, Washington Post (https://twitter.com/Amazing_Maps/status/691025214952624128)

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