Atib Azzad

Kort fortalt er poenget med å trekke frem ressurser at noen med mer romslig økonomi vil ha større anledning til å granske å evt. forbedre seg selv, i kontrast til noen som sliter med å få endene til å møtes, og må bruke mesteparten av sin tid på det, i tilegg til hva det forverrer av psykisk helse å føle at man lever i usikkerhet. Alle problemer man evt. måtte sitte med vil sannsynligvis forverres dersom man må leve under økonomisk press og usikkerhet. Ikke én slik faktor bør foreslås som eneste forklaringsmodell, slik de som harselerer med trangboddhet som mulig medvirkende årsak ser ut til å tro, når man forsøker å utbedre risiko og uhelse i befolkningen må man naturligvis spekulere i flere medvirkende årsaker til hvorfor noen fra en slik bakgrunn eller slikt økonomisk sjikte har større risiko for å handle sånn-eller-sånn. Men det er klart, at dersom man er fornøyd med forklaringsmodellen som sier seg fornøyd med å erklære dem uhelbredelig annerledes, så må vel alle andre forsøk på forklaringer avvises.

[...]Far-right parties and movements have increasingly come to incorporate ideas of gender equality into their political agendas. While seemingly out of concern for women's rights and safety, these issues are in reality seldom more than a veil to further the stigmatisation of immigrant—and specifically Muslim—men. Indeed, the supposed sexual dangers of Muslim men, although with deep historical roots, have in recent years been capitalised to make women's rights an important (pseudo-)question for the far right. In this threat-based narrative, Western values of equality, progressiveness and tolerance are positioned in complete and irreconcilable contrast to alleged Muslim oppression, backwardness and dogmatism. It is a trope that centres around the idea of an ‘us’ against ‘them’ where the imagined in-group of native White women, and by extension the White nation itself, is at risk due to the inherently predatory, violent and overly sexual nature of a homogenously and hyper-simplistically imagined out-group of Muslim men. Sweden provides an especially illustrative example of this phenomenon. It has come to be imagined by the international far right as a deterring example of how increasing sexual violence follows generous immigration policies. In fact, international far-right efforts, with the far right in the United States at the forefront, have over time come to cement the idea that Sweden is literally the ‘rape capital’ of the world. This is a far-right narrative, which goes against commonly held international views of Sweden as among the most equal and safe places in the world. It also ignores a lack of scientific support that increasing immigration would lead to more immigrant-perpetrated rape and disregards the many issues that come with comparing sexual assault statistics internationally. Beyond this, given how important nationhood is for marking in-group identity and belonging, it becomes relevant to understand how immigrant-perpetrated rape in Sweden—for them an external national context—serves for an international and especially US far-right movement. More than this, given that Islamophobia is often associated more strongly with the European far right, it also poses the question of why the supposed Muslim immigration problems of a small Nordic nation would matter to the far right in the markedly different US context.

[...]Claim: “There has been a major increase in the number of reported sexual offences in Sweden” Facts: According to the Swedish Crime Survey, there has been an increase in self-reported sexual offences over the last ten years, although a downward trend can be seen from 2018 onwards. Of the population (aged 16–84), 0.9 percent state that they were exposed to a sexual offence involving the use of force in 2022. It is important to note that sexual offences comprise a broad spectrum of offences, from minor incidents to very serious incidents such as rape. According to Brå, the tendency to report primarily minor incidents has increased over time, whereas victimisation for serious sexual offences has remained more steady and is considerably lower than for sexual crimes in general. The number of rape offences reported to the Police Authority has also increased over the last ten years. This can partly be explained by changes in legislation. As the definition of rape in Swedish law has broadened, it is difficult to compare the levels of reported crime over time. It is also difficult to make international comparisons based on crime statistics, as many acts that are considered rape under Swedish law are not considered rape in many other countries. Furthermore, in some countries, if several offences are committed on the same occasion, only the most serious of these will be recorded. In Sweden, in principle every offence committed on a single occasion is recorded. While Sweden, according to Eurostat’s statistics, has long had the highest number of reported rapes per capita, Brå’s study shows that if the legal conditions and statistical methods had been the same as in Germany, Sweden would rank somewhere in the middle of the statistics from Eurostat. Moreover, willingness to report sexual offences also differs dramatically between countries. A country in which these crimes are talked about openly, and victims are not blamed, will also have more cases reported. Sweden has made a conscious effort to encourage women to report any offence. #MeToo and other movements against sexual crimes and abuse in recent years may have further increased the willingness to report victimisation, both to the police and in surveys. According to the above-mentioned study by Brå, women in Sweden are more exposed to rape than women in countries in southern and eastern Europe, such as Spain, Portugal, Poland and Greece, even after adjusting the statistics. These differences may be due to more rapes actually taking place in Sweden, but may also be due to greater willingness among Swedish women to report victimisation. In short, there is no support for the claim that Sweden deviates significantly from other countries in north-western Europe when it comes to the incidence of rape.

Så NRK-artikkelen hevder vestlige eliter søker å erstatte nordmenn med ikke hvite utlendinger? Folk oppfører seg som om The great replacement/Den store utskiftningen bare er en teori som forteller om endring i demografi, men teorien innebærer at vestlige eliter ønsker å erstatte hvite folk i Europa med ikke-hvite folk fra utenfor Europa med intensjon om å ødelegge såkalt hvit kultur, og utrydde hvite folk. Det er ikke synonymt med å snakke om endringer i demografi, og vil sikkert få mye mindre kritikk dersom de klarer å skille mellom disse to tingene, at andelen innvandrere og barn av innvandrere har økt i Norge, er ikke det samme som at vestlige eliter mener å utrydde hvite folk, og hvit kultur. [...]The Great Replacement (French: grand remplacement), also known as replacement theory or great replacement theory, is a debunked white nationalist far-right conspiracy theory coined by French author Renaud Camus. Camus's theory states that, with the complicity or cooperation of "replacist" elites, the ethnic French and white European populations at large are being demographically and culturally replaced by non-white peoples—especially from Muslim-majority countries—through mass migration, demographic growth and a drop in the birth rate of white Europeans. Since then, similar claims have been advanced in other national contexts, notably in the United States. Mainstream scholars have dismissed these claims of a conspiracy of "replacist" elites as rooted in a misunderstanding of demographic statistics and premised upon an unscientific, racist worldview.

Tror det er et identitetspolitisk narrativ som er blit pushet av mange av de snakkende hodene den siste tiden. Premisset her forutsetter jo at man avviser ignorerer eller rett og slett ikke kan noe om historie, hvis man skal lete frem årsakssammenhenger for hvorfor såkalte muslimske land har diverse problemer, vil jeg si det er langt mindre magisk å peke på imperialisme, kolonialisme, med alt det innebærer, enn hvilken versjon av mannen i himmelen de tilber. Hvis det var noen konsekvens mellom kristendom og demokrati ville man vel sett de beste demokratier i Afrika, da kristendommen har lenger historie der, enn Europa. Kanskje er det en sammenheng mellom stabilitet/ustabilitet og plyndring/plyndret, men det er kanskje en kjedelig forklaringsmodell når den ikke forutsetter en grunnleggende forskjell mellom folkegrupper.

Fy faen! Mens etniske nordmenn må betale ut av egen lomme, eller må gå med flatt og rett hår!?

imperialisme & kolonialisme er også en del av forklaringsmodellen for hvorfor såkalte muslimske land ikke er like vellykkede som fks. skandinavia. Kristendommen har lenger tradisjon i Afrika enn Europa, som bør være oppsiktsvekkende for de som forsøker å forklare en nasjons fremskritt og en annens vanskeligheter med religion, og ignorere makt, utnyttelses, og plyndrings-aspekter.

Det er laget seks filmatiseringer om mytteriet på Bounty, fortellingen om mytteriet på Bounty baserer seg hovedsakelig på Blighs egen bok om hendelsen, Edward Christian's Appendix, og en tredje bok av John Barrow, venn av Heywood-familien, og vitnemål fra rettssaken hvor mannskapet var tiltalt. Særlig bøkene etablerer en del myter som sementeres jo mer fortellingen får plass i populærkulturen, som filmatiseringene ytterligere gjør til troper og deretter konvensjoner man forventer i en Bounty-film. Samtidig som Mel Gibson-versjonen ofte trekkes frem som mer sannferdig enn sine forgjengere, i den graden en spillefilm kan gjengi faktisk historie på noen meningsfull måte, den var også mer kritisk/woke(?) til hvordan mannskapet utnyttet menneskene på Tahiti, og selv om Gibson-versjonen toner ned fremstillingen av Bligh som en tyrann, er denne fremstillingen likevel blitt en av arketypene man forventer av en Bounty-film. -Og sorry, jeg vet det er pedantisk, jeg bare klarer ikke la være når noen beskriver en spillefilm som sann historie, for; Ja, den baserer seg på en virkelig hendelse, men underholdningsfilm vil alltid prioritere underholdning, og formalistiske grep som folk kjenner, over historisk gjengivelse, jeg sier ikke de ikke kan være informative, eller inspirere til å undersøke de faktiske hendelsene, men jeg er bekymret for hva som skjer hvis man glemmer å være kritisk til sannhetsgehalten i spillefilm.

[...]Over at least the past 20 years, Israel has presented itself as a champion of LGBTQIA+ communities in contrast to Palestinian society, which it portrays as being incurably blighted by homophobia. Queerness confers no immunity from being buried in the remains of bombed-out hospitals or from starvation from the famine Israel has manufactured in Gaza. Being transgender does not mitigate the hunger driving Palestinians to aid sites that Israeli soldiers transform into killing fields. [...]During the recent outburst of Palestinian liberation struggles against Israeli settler colonial violence, Zionists flooded our social media networks with statements such as “try to organize a pride parade in Gaza.” Such statements are characteristic of pinkwashing, and they are used to delegitimize Palestinian anti-colonial uprising. These statements fit within a larger context of structural racism in which Israel is portrayed as enlightened, and a proponent of gay rights, while Palestinians, especially those in Gaza, are uniformly described as anti-gay and therefore deserving of murder and expulsion from our land. Comments like these are not borne out of a genuine concern for queer and trans lives and the violence we face. Irrespective of the internal dynamics of Palestinian society, the biggest impediment to any parade in Palestine is Israeli colonialism and the barbaric blockade that has ghettoized and fragmented Gaza from the rest of Palestine. Whenever Palestinians collectively speak up for our rights, we are bombed by Israel’s colonial army and silenced by mainstream media. The queer Palestinian experience teaches us how “Pride” without total liberation is a hollow, meaningless and a deceptive idea. Zionists highlight the fact that the Pride parade in Tel Aviv serves as proof of Israel’s commitment to queer liberation. However, Pride in Israel is a state-sponsored propaganda strategy designed to pinkwash Israel’s colonial crimes against Palestinians, queers and non-queers alike. Pinkwashing is a form of colonial violence that attempts to convince the world that Palestinian queers have no future in our homeland or among our families, and that our colonizer is now our “saviour.”

Med fare for å fortelle andre hva de skal føle, tenker jeg det at NRK legger ned programmer man liker, innebærer skuffelse, snarere enn skepsis, særlig den type skepsis trådstarter fisker etter. Jeg skulle også ønske NRK ikke følte behov for å kutte og effektivisere (eller selge hele eiendommen på marienlyst for å leie et annet sted), men kritikken her er jo ikke at NRK forsøker slanke seg.

Ser ut som svaret er nei.

Jeg tror vi har sovet litt i timen når det kommer til å gjenkjenne fascisme, kombinert med høylytte importerte "analyser" fra USA siden 80'tallet (i Norge) hvor en eller annen venstreside gis skylden for alt og ingenting. [...]Since the 1950s, the conservative movement has justified bad behavior—including supporting Donald Trump—by persuading itself that the left is worse. If you spend any time consuming right-wing media in America, you quickly learn the following: Liberals are responsible for racism, slavery, and the Ku Klux Klan. They admire Mussolini and Hitler, and modern liberalism is little different from fascism or, even worse, communism. The mainstream media and academia cannot be trusted because of the pervasive, totalitarian nature of liberal culture. This belief in a broad liberal conspiracy is standard in the highest echelons of the conservative establishment and right-wing media.

Endelig en wiki for de som er litt nazi-curious. My heart goes out to you! [...]Tech billionaire Elon Musk’s online encyclopedia, Grokipedia, cites the neo-Nazi website Stormfront as a source 42 times and relies on other websites that experts have shunned as unreliable or hate-filled, according to an analysis by two researchers at Cornell University. Grokipedia, which Musk launched last month as a competitor to what he called the “woke” Wikipedia, also cites the conspiracy theory website Infowars as a source 34 times and the white nationalist website VDare 107 times, the researchers found.

Jeg har ingen forpliktelser til å inngå med disse late bad faith innsigelsene dine, jeg refererte til FN's høykommissær for menneskerettigheters uttalelse, og har generelt ingen problemer med å forstå hvorfor det er problematisk å henrette folk uten rettegang (selv om de skulle vise seg å smugle droger).

Jeg tipper illegaliteten i dette blir tydeligere om du lykkes i å finne svar på alle disse retoriske spørsmålene dine..