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I don't see what's the big fuss here. Maybe a few edgy comments, but nothing "painfully awry". I would say kudos to the organizers for their trust in their fellow citizens to speak out freely without censorship.

Btw, her profile [1] on the project's page is up and straight about her agenda (and her character, as well): "I’m gonna tweet about my thoughts and being me, about having children and living my life and what not."

There may be a day when we become so politically-correct about everything that we can't speak out minds anymore.

[1] http://curatorsofsweden.com/

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You don't think the string of tweets starting with

"Whats the fuzz with jews. You can't even see if a person is a jew, unless you see their penises, and even if you do, you can't be sure!?"

is "painfully awry" for a twitter account intended to promote tourism to Sweden? What about the tweet about the "hungry gay with aids"?

I doubt those encourage anyone who's jewish or homosexual to visit Sweden.

I think she did awesome, even I fell for it.

First she says that jews are just like other people. Woah! That's some weird thinking!

She photoshops Freddy Mercury (who was gay and had aids) into a picture with food calling it "hungry gay with aids" which you might call vulgar maybe (just as the urine picture caption) but how is it wrong?

She keeps doing a few more bad jokes.

I think if she wanted to troll she did a really great job! People are up in arms about a few harmless comments and pictures, I definitely do applaud her:)

What's "painfully awry" about thinking jews are no different from other people apart from the circumcision thing?

Those won't encourage or discourage any jewish people to visit Sweden. Because jewish people, like pretty much any other people, mostly not idiots and understand that stupid trolling by one person doesn't mean anything and does not reflect on the whole country. It is mildly annoying to read this, it is even more annoying to understand "omg, I just spent 10 minutes of my time on this crap", but that's it.

I guess that's why it's an experiment. Tourist boards are driven by marketing and PR types. It's refreshingly transparent to hear from - apparently - real people... you see the country from their viewpoint.

My interpretation is that she says jews are normal people. Is that really offensive? Why? Because she mentions that a fraction of jews have a penis?

> twitter account intended to promote tourism to Sweden?

Isn't it just some personal twitter account?

Based on the news reports, I thought it was controlled by the Swedish government's tourism ministry.

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