{"id":175531,"date":"2026-08-05T05:26:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T03:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/frihetsnytt.se\/?p=175531"},"modified":"2026-08-04T23:36:00","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T21:36:00","slug":"nils-funcke-om-quisling-braket-det-far-lindberg-tala","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/frihetsnytt.se\/en\/nils-funcke-on-the-quisling-controversy-let-lindberg-speak\/","title":{"rendered":"Nils Funcke on the \u201dQuisling\u201d controversy: \u201cLindberg will just have to put up with it\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Nils Funcke challenges the prevailing view of the \u201cQuisling\u201d controversy. The well-known expert on freedom of speech now offers his perspective on the war of words between Richard Jomshof and Anders Lindberg\u2014and his conclusions are likely to attract a great deal of attention.<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The journalist and freedom of speech expert <strong>Nils Funcke<\/strong> analyzes the much-discussed Quisling controversy in a <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.expressen.se\/kultur\/nagra-svinhugg--maste-man-tala-\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">culture article<\/a><\/strong> in Expressen. He notes that the word \u201dQuisling\u201d risks losing its meaning if it is used too casually, but at the same time highlights how the current conflict arose.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to Funcke, the exchange began when Aftonbladet\u2019s political editor-in-chief, Anders Lindberg, compared Ulf Kristersson\u2019s collaboration with the Sweden Democrats to Franz von Papen\u2019s role leading up to Adolf Hitler\u2019s rise to power in Germany.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>\u201dLindberg will just have to put up with it\u201d<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Funcke believes that anyone who draws on historical parallels must also accept that they will be met with the same kind of rhetoric.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>\u201dYou reap what you sow. If you resort to historical parallels\u2014no matter how tenuous they may be\u2014you have to accept that the person under attack will respond in kind. Lindberg will just have to put up with it.\u201d<\/em>, he writes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This assessment thus contradicts the view put forward by several of Jomshof\u2019s critics, who have focused primarily on his choice of words rather than on the preceding exchange.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Warns of a continued escalation<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At the same time, Funcke believes that the debate later went a step further when Richard Jomshof also referred to the Social Democrats\u2019 party leader <strong>Magdalena Andersson<\/strong> for \u201dQuisling.\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He describes this development as the \u201dsloping rhetorical plane subsequently turning into a precipice\u201d and points out that generally derogatory comments are normally permissible, but that in certain cases, statements can border on defamation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>A New Dimension in the Debate<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Funcke\u2019s post thus adds a new dimension to the heated debate. While he warns against the overly casual use of historically charged terms, he asserts that anyone who chooses to draw such parallels must also be prepared to face the same kind of rhetoric in return.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nils Funcke offers his take on the much-discussed \u201cQuisling\u201d controversy\u2014and his conclusion runs counter to the narrative that has dominated the debate<\/p>","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":39175,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[206,1520,205],"tags":[3973,1878,1746,156],"class_list":["post-175531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-inrikes","category-stor","category-nyheter","tag-anders-lindberg","tag-nils-funcke","tag-richard-jomshof","tag-sverigedemokraterna"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/frihetsnytt.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/frihetsnytt.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/frihetsnytt.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frihetsnytt.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frihetsnytt.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/frihetsnytt.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175531\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/frihetsnytt.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frihetsnytt.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frihetsnytt.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}