The issue of ethnic Swedes and the importance of preserving their identity continues to rock the Sweden Democrats. Now Mattias Karlsson, the man behind the SD’s "open Swedishness" initiative, is launching an attack on ethno-nationalism, calling it "immoral" and "unnecessarily divisive." If he thought this would silence his critics, he was mistaken.
The controversy over whether the Sweden Democrats have abandoned the ethnic dimension of nationalism has dominated the party’s fall, both before and after the parliamentary election on September 13. The party leader Jimmie Åkesson has said that it doesn't matter if ethnic Swedes become a minority, as long as the culture and values remain. Deputy party leader Henrik Vinge He, too, has taken a stand against the ethnic connotation.
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