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It used to be groups of armed men who'd rob banks and open fire on anyone who'd be selling drugs who was not their affiliate, oh and also open fire on any small business who'd refuse to pay them for protection.
This Spotify thing seems regular crime, I'd say bordering white collar crime given the non-violent nature of the procedure.
I know next to nothing about Sweden, not the bombing stats in the article seem staggering to me for a country of that size.
There's no "fair to bring up that point" here, be a better Christian, not a racist one.
Context is everything here. If a headline said "Trump discovers through DNA test he's 100% Swedish," we wouldn't assume your definition of "Swedish." We'd assume it meant genetics.
And likewise, if a headline said, "If you're Swedish you're no longer allowed to own a hunting rifle," you would know pretty easily that meant a citizen of the modern country called Sweden. Because it's about law and how it applies.
In the case of this headline, it is ambiguous. It's fair to say people might assume ethnicity. It's valid to point out that it might not be the case.
There's more reason to not actively suppress talk about what "Swedish" means here: When there's a negative story, people want answers and solutions. If a headline is ambiguous about something, and clearing the ambiguity could get us closer to finding a cause, you're doing something good for everyone. If the perpetrators of the alleged crime here were your every-day indigenous ethnic Swede, you'd assume different causes and different solutions than if it were one of a new arrival from a different country, culture, and ethnicity. Maybe some solutions would be the same, but maybe (and likely) not!
What purpose is there of putting forth this one definition of "Swedish" in exclusion to the others, in the context of this headline and the commenter's pointing out of something true? It only serves to suppress thought.
If French people start a company in the US, it'll be an American company. Same with these Swedish gangs, it doesn't matter where the people are from.
Identity is a complicated thing and always has been, really, but in these times with financial exchange and travel as active as it is.. the lines are just not that clear.
Don't be a racist, it's scum.
You don't fool me into submission with either downvotes or accusations.
I don't agree with the naïve approach the Swedish government took on immigration, not much was done to actually bridge cultural and economical gaps, Swedish society has become very individualistic and losing its collectivist sense for a while, from what I gather from older generations since at least the 90s. Without a sense of community to integrate immigrants into different aspects of society, just relying on education of children (and hoping those connections between newly immigrant parents and the larger society will be enough) instead of bringing their parents into the fold to become fully citizens and aligning into shared values was never going to work out.
On the other hand, the problem stemming from this naïvety is here, right now, the solution is not to vote for SD (or AfS, and similarly populists parties) who promise to "crack down on immigration and crime" with non-solutions. The solution is not going to be simple, not going to be to just hire more police with lower standards so the government can say it's filling the ranks of Polisen to fight crime, that will only prolong, and escalate gang wars. Not that the police doesn't need more staffing, it needs, but with smart hiring, not just throwing brutes into the mix with lower standards.
It's exactly what happened when Sweden broke up gangs like Vårbynätverket, the power vacuum fueled more violence, as any country with gang issues has known for a long time. The current government is not really willing to hear about a holistic approach to solve this issue, they want to crack down on crime, and just like the narcotics policy: it won't work, it won't stamp out, gangs exist for multiple social reasons and without tackling that side of the equation there's just an infinite game of whack-a-mole, and as we see it just gets worse, now the criminals recruit 12-15 years old to do their murders for them.
I really hope you can see that there is no easy way out of this, I say that as a Brazilian living here for more than a decade: escalating violence against gangs while escalating the anti-immigration rhetoric in a country with a lot of immigrants already feeling left out of society is just going to make everything worse, I really hope Sweden doesn't go through this know failure path because it can get much uglier.