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Cake day: June 28th, 2023

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  • "Mr Adamson, troubled by the direction of travel he sees in his native country, with spiralling violence and deepening social cleavages, reflected that the cliched image of “Sweden as a happy paradise” is “waning”.

    “People don’t even pick it up as an introductory remark in a conversation or in an article, which is interesting in itself isn’t it," he said.

    “The right-wingers have responded and the general population has responded by running rightwards.”

    Blaming unmanaged migration over a prolonged period, Mr Adamson lambasted the politicians that oversaw that policy as having “betrayed their own heritage”.

    He added: “Certainly Sweden’s problem is that we have been dominated by an almost-religious idealisation of things that the elites in our country know very little about, namely foreign cultures.

    “This is here, it is real and [yet] we want to think about happy things. We want to think about the Eurovision song contest - which also these days is not a happy thing, by the way.”

    This is coming from a sociologist worried about rising violence, it also talks about the rise in rightwing violence. If the left doesn’t address this with more than accusations of racism and dismissal then more people will run to the right.

    Yes i know the source is bad.