What with #swedengate , might as well start talking about some parts Swedish racism that I've been studying.
If there is anything in this thread you'd like to boost, I'd very much appreciate it.

Sweden formed laws against hate speech in 1949. That's a few years after WWII, as you'll notice.

At that time, most other countries had anti-nazi laws. Sweden refused to establish any such laws, and pointed at Freedom of speech.

Now, since it was allowed to print nazi propaganda in Sweden, a lot of people started doing that, and then mailing the stuff abroad.
Other countries, who were more anti-nazi, didn't like this. They put pressure on Sweden, and we got our laws against hate speech.

Those laws exist because Sweden was a beacon of Nazi propaganda, and other countries put pressure on us.

Oh, and if any of this sounds like any techbros you've seen, that's because it is the same shit.
De-platform nazis, always. De-federate anyone who lets fascists speak.

It's the oldest trick in the book, it works, and it's been a vital part of the freedom of speech from the start.

Sweden had laws of forced sterilization of the general population until 1976, and of transgender people until 2013.

The law stated that they should sterilize people who were "mentally ill".
This term was of course targeted against coloured and poor people. It targeted women who lived without a man, single mothers, anyone marginalized. There are very clear patterns as to who was considered mentally ill, and who got a free pass.

This whole idea of sterilizing people from certain groups speaks of the racism that is at the heart of swedish thinking and culture. Most of it was no longer legal from 1976, but as we see with how long we sterilized transgender people - 2013 ffs - the idea that this is a good thing is very much still present.

And it is very much directed towards coloured people, towards BIPOC people, and towards Muslim people.