Bruce Bawer: Swedenâs March Into Oblivion
Sweden is self-destructing, and more and more people are writing about it â but, with very few exceptions, still not in the mainstream Swedish media, where denial continues to reign supreme. Indeed, even as concerned observers abroad (especially in neighboring Denmark and Norway, where the elites still look to their larger neighbor as a multicultural role model while many, if not most, ordinary householders view it as a cautionary example) are sounding the alarm about the fallout of Swedish immigration policies, Swedenâs own mainstream media â and the rest of its cultural establishment â are laboring overtime to silence the truth-tellers and keep the rabble from openly questioning the wisdom of their betters.[..]
Meanwhile, as I say, the admonitory essays keep coming. One example: âSwedenâs Race to the Bottom,â a bracingly frank piece that appeared on December 4 on the website of Jyllands-Posten, Denmarkâs biggest newspaper. The author, Morten Uhrskov Jensen, didnât mince words. His opening sentence: âSweden has chosen to break down.â Jensen went on to outline the steady slide in the quality of education in Swedish primary schools over the last decade or so, as detailed in a recent PISA study, and to link that decline to what Jensen bluntly called the countryâs âinsane immigration policy.â
Sweden, warned Jensen, âwill have to pay a very high price for its experiment with permitting excessive immigration from dysfunctional states.â He placed special blame on the media, noting that in an article about the PISA study, Aftonbladet, Swedenâs largest paper (and, as he put it, âofficial Swedenâs mouthpieceâ), chose to ignore the real reason for the school crisis and to pretend itâs all the fault of âthe decline in equality in schools,â which, in turn, is a result of âfree school choice.â Reacting to this transparent hogwash, Jensen commented: âOne doesnât know whether to laugh or cry.â
Five days later, Jyllands-Posten offered another grim report, this one entitled âA Land of Ghosts and Shadows.â In it, Danish author Mikael Javling recounted the repercussions of a recent advertisement in the newspaper Dagens Nyheter. […]
So it goes. On Thursday evening, in reaction to a clash in Stockholm between neo-Nazis and âanti-racists,â thousands of citizens of Uppsala, Gothenberg, and Malmö took to the streets in yet another iteration of that favorite Scandinavian pastime, the torchlight procession against racism. Accounts of the preparations for these events noted that in case of any friction, âdialogue policeâ (dialogpolisen) â a term I have never before encountered â would be on hand. Stockholm anti-racists plan a Sunday demo. Perusing images of the Thursday evening processions, which showed the pious multicultural multitudes flaunting yet again their proud refusal to test their common ideology against reality, I couldnât help pondering the melancholy question: are they really unaware that theyâre marching their country into oblivion, or are they consciously embracing extinction in the belief that even self-slaughter is preferable to being called a racist? Bruce Bawer: Frontpage