r/Documentaries • u/[deleted] • Mar 17 '18

South Africa - A Reversed Apartheid? (2018) - A documentary shining light on the white boer minority's current situation living in SA. Crowdfunded and made by a swedish political science major from the The Swedish Defence University.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEDU0xIILKA
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u/[deleted] Mar 18 '18

The sweden democrats are not even that far right if you compare their views on immigration to other far right partys in the world. Sweden is just super left and has been for decades. The political climate in Sweden right now is awful with people getting called nazis left and right if they don’t agree 100% with the crazy amounts of immigrants we take in.

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u/cherrytwizzlers Mar 18 '18

I agree with your first point but I don't think saying that Sweden has a problem with Nazis is a stretch. We do. This past summer they organized public parades almost monthly and were invited to Almedalen, probably the biggest political event in Sweden. Those are the issues I'm referring to.

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u/[deleted] Mar 18 '18

I still wouldn’t call sweden ”a really racist country”, I would argue that we are the exact opposite but sure, I can see where you’re coming from and I agree about the nazi problem.

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u/eggsssssssss Mar 18 '18

I kept upvoting and then unupvoting your comments—I get that you’re just defending swedes against a ridiculous claim, and you’re right to say that sweden isn’t a predominantly right wing country, and that its ridiculous to imply that most swedes are racists or nazis.

But neo nazis and their ilk are constantly on a campaign to gain recruits while mitigating the public backlash through denial and gaslighting. It’s happening in Europe and in America, too. So when you confront people saying shit like “white swedes are all racists”, you can’t also deny or minimize the presence of actual white supremacists unless you want to do their work for them. If you don’t mind the imposition, it’s even better to acknowledge and condemn what white supremacy there is at the same time as you correct clueless exaggerators like that.