{"id":179678,"date":"2026-10-05T08:43:27","date_gmt":"2026-10-05T06:43:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/frihetsnytt.se\/?p=179678"},"modified":"2026-10-05T11:56:32","modified_gmt":"2026-10-05T09:56:32","slug":"vansterforfattarens-hanskratt-nar-svenskfientlighet-granskas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/frihetsnytt.se\/en\/the-left-wing-authors-laughter-when-anti-swedish-sentiment-is-scrutinized\/","title":{"rendered":"The Left-Wing Writer's Derisive Laughter When Anti-Swedish Sentiment Is Scrutinized"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>While Swedish youths are subjected to humiliating robberies, beatings, and abuse in which their ethnicity is used as a weapon, author and former Expressen journalist Sebastian Mattsson responds with nothing but a derisive laugh. This is telling of the culture of silence and relativization that has long surrounded anti-Swedish sentiment.<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">journalists <strong>Pelle Zackrisson<\/strong> announced on Sunday at <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Pelle_Z\/status\/2106311708704739638\">X<\/a><\/strong> that he should investigate anti-Swedish sentiment. He is calling on people who, either personally or through family members, have been targeted at school, at work, in elder care, or in their neighborhoods simply because they are Swedish\u2014or immigrants who have been viewed as \u201dtoo Swedish.\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Zackrisson wants specific details: what happened, when, and where. He offers anonymity and source protection. By Monday morning, the call for information had surpassed 100,000 views. It is an attempt to bring to light what has long been silenced.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-x wp-block-embed-x\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"sv\" dir=\"ltr\">CALL FOR TESTIMONIES: I plan to investigate anti-Swedish sentiment. I am looking for people who have been targeted themselves\u2014or whose family members have been targeted\u2014at school, at work, in elder care, or in their neighborhood\u2014because they are Swedish, or because they are immigrants considered \u201dtoo Swedish.\u201d.<br><br>Briefly describe what happened, when, and where\u2026<\/p>\u2014 Pelle Zackrisson \ud83c\uddf8\ud83c\uddea (@Pelle_Z) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Pelle_Z\/status\/2106311708704739638?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 3, 2026<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Mattsson's response: pure mockery<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The next day, the author and reporter at Svensk Damtidning quoted <strong>Sebastian Mattsson<\/strong> the appeal on <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SebMattz\/status\/2106757735853232480\">X<\/a><\/strong>. No reasoning. No discussion about the victims. No question about why such an investigation is needed. Just:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>\u201dHahahhahahahahaha\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-x wp-block-embed-x\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"tl\" dir=\"ltr\">Hahahhahahahahaha <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Qiz4WKV3cT\">https:\/\/t.co\/Qiz4WKV3cT<\/a><\/p>\u2014 Sebastian Mattsson (@SebMattz) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SebMattz\/status\/2106757735853232480?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 4, 2026<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The post was published directly above a call for people who had been subjected to anti-Swedish sentiment. This is not a criticism of the method or the scope of the study. It is a pure mockery of the very idea that the vulnerability of Swedes is worth investigating at all. The post received approximately 83,000 views.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The reactions weren't long in coming. One user asked point-blank:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>\u201dWhat\u2019s so funny? Swedish teenagers being mugged and humiliated?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Another person wrote:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>\u201dSwedish youths are literally being murdered, beaten, and raped simply because they are Swedish. And you\u2019re laughing. You disgusting scum.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Also, the culture editor of the left-wing newspaper Dagens ETC <strong>Martin Aag\u00e5rd<\/strong> attempts to downplay anti-Swedish sentiment and draws a parallel to how Swedish and Norwegian youths used to fight when he himself was a child. Zackrisson responds by saying that he \u201ddoes not understand the impulse to try to ridicule or downplay\u201d this, and explicitly asks Aag\u00e5rd whether his point is that anti-Swedish sentiment \u201ddoes not exist.\u201d As of this writing, Aag\u00e5rd has not responded to Zackrisson\u2019s question.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-x wp-block-embed-x\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"sv\" dir=\"ltr\">Dear Martin, I don't understand this instinct to try to ridicule or belittle others. <br><br>Are you saying that anti-Swedish sentiment doesn't exist, or perhaps that it's an exaggerated problem?<br><br>Then write about it! I promise I'll read it. It's always good to have more perspectives. \ud83d\ude42 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ZibFiW6T3y\">https:\/\/t.co\/ZibFiW6T3y<\/a><\/p>\u2014 Pelle Zackrisson \ud83c\uddf8\ud83c\uddea (@Pelle_Z) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Pelle_Z\/status\/2106698609303617728?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 4, 2026<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Anti-Swedish sentiment is well-documented\u2014and systematically suppressed<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is nothing new. As early as 2005, Lund University published Petra \u00c5kesson\u2019s interview study <em>We're at war with the Swedes<\/em>, in which young robbers openly described how they sought out and targeted Swedes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Since then, robberies targeting young people have followed the same pattern: about four out of five young robbery victims are of Swedish descent, while roughly two-thirds of the suspects are of foreign descent. Elements of humiliation\u2014urination, filming, nudity, and ethnic slurs such as \u201ddamn Swede\u201d and \u201dSwede bastard\u201d\u2014recur in court rulings and preliminary investigations. Despite this, hardly anyone has been sentenced to a harsher penalty for hate crimes targeting Swedes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>The mockery is part of the problem<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When an established author and former tabloid journalist responds to an investigation into anti-Swedish sentiment with a long, derisive laugh, it is not just in poor taste. It is an expression of a culture in which the vulnerability of Swedes is systematically downplayed, while every other form of ethnically motivated hatred is treated with the utmost seriousness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Zackrisson\u2019s investigation gives vulnerable people a chance to be heard. Mattsson\u2019s laughter shows just how urgent that opportunity is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When anti-Swedish sentiment\u2014the most widespread form of racism in Sweden\u2014is examined, it is met with derisive laughter from the media establishment<\/p>","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":153190,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[206,1520,205],"tags":[696],"class_list":["post-179678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-inrikes","category-stor","category-nyheter","tag-svenskfientlighet"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/frihetsnytt.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179678","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=179678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/frihetsnytt.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179678\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frihetsnytt.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/153190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/frihetsnytt.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frihetsnytt.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frihetsnytt.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}