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Seems to me that she has been given a platform to stir the pot and has taken the opportunity to do so. This seems like trolling to me, plain and simple. Use strong words/imagery that incite emotion and blind the reader from noticing that she isn't really saying anything that bad. That said, I'm sure the Swedish tourist board wasn't quite expecting this...

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You didn't think calling a photoshopped picture of Freddie Mercury "hungry gay with aids" that bad?

I think its crass, tasteless, offensive and annoying. However, with the troll filter on, I cant really get that upset about it...

In the grand scheme of internet trolling? It barely registers.

Is either stupidity, insanity, tasteless and surrealistic trolling, or brilliant satire. And I've got no idea which at this point.

Always bet on stupidity.

Sweden is certainly one of the most politically correct countries around; there is just one "good" way of thinking.

In short, just another stupid moral panic in Sweden. Nothing to see here, move along.

By 4chan standards, it's positively noble.

Of course, anything starting with "by 4chan standards" has got to be pretty depraved already.

No, as a swede i dont this this is that bad, I believe that gay people has the same rights as all other humans and I believe this is a common swedish mindset. Sweden is a highly secularized and liberal country in the subjects of gay and religion. These comments on jews and gays are just inflammatory and made to make page views. As outsiders that have a more sensitive view on gay and religion these views may be offensive. but to many swedes these comments are recognized as attention craving and irrelevant.

For traditional media, it's horrendous. For what comes out of the internet on a daily basis, it's banal.

What exactly is bad about it? It seems as if it should be bad, but if you think about it, why?

It's either because the guy died from AIDS so the comment is insensitive, or the OP is homophobic and thinks calling people gay is always used as a derogatory.

It's probably the former though.

It was pretty funny? I laughed. Might be a scandinavian thing.

But it's not like we don't know what happens when you give a public forum accessible to anybody. And the Swedish tourist board must have known it too. The appearance of trolls is inevitable, the question is only when. I'm sure right now thousands of people over the world are thinking "this is trolling? If only somebody would get an access to this to me, I'd troll the hell out of it! People would talk about it for years after!". That's just how it is, you can't expect 100% of people to be mature, civilized and well-behaved.

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