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Country seen as champion of equal rights faces reckoning after senior politician says she felt compelled to quit

Increasing hate, threats and harassment against female politicians are scaring women away from public life and forcing them to censor themselves, the Swedish government’s equality agency has said, warning that this poses a “big threat to democracy.”

Women’s safety in politics has come under heightened scrutiny in the Scandinavian country since October, when Anna-Karin Hatt resigned as leader of the Centre party after only five months in office, citing hate and threats.

“To constantly feel like you need to look over your shoulder and [to] not feel completely safe, not even at home … I am affected by it much more deeply than I thought I would [be],” she said at the time.

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[–] bastion@feddit.nl 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

this was always the argument in the US when taking with people regarding all the cool things Sweden instituted - "but they are culturally contiguous, and that's what makes it work."

..in a melting pot, you have to account for the existence of all these extreme viewpoints, and have some kind of response. Those things that aren't accounted for simply spill out into the populous, and become everyone's problem.

[–] yeather@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

The Swedish system is unfortunately collapsing under it’s own weight partially due to immigrants taking more than they put in. The rapid influx of people has put a strain on all factors of public services from healthcare to school.

[–] bastion@feddit.nl 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Yeah.. ..I really love some of the core Swedish ideals, and it's sad to see this happening. I really hope that Sweden is able to generate an effective response to the incoming ideologies without sacrificing their own ideals.

When people get too soft, times get hard (bullies win when people are too soft). A genuine balance needs to be struck, which requires a lot of personal processing by many people, as well as time for the resultant answers to spread through the culture. Sweden may need to limit immigration in the mean time to give time for that to occur.