Posted on 02/21/2019 6:18:25 PM PST by DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis
A 70-year-old man who recently was prosecuted for writing that Somalis are lazy and don’t work, has now been convicted of the crime in Sweden.
It is “derogatory to the group of Somalis’ reputation” according to the District Court.
The man, who lives in western Sweden, wrote in connection with a Facebook post that linked to an SVT article, which stated that only one out of five Somalis have a job, that “no Somali can work they are the laziest people in this world”.
The verdict came last week. The man was convicted of hate speech by a unanimous District Court, and ordered to pay 60 daily fines of SEK 120, totaling SEK 7200 (700 euro’s).
For a remark to be classed as hate speech, it must express misconduct of a group of people, and regarding this the District Court writes: “For a message to fall under the term ‘misconduct’, it is sufficient that a statement about, for example, a certain ethnic group is derogatory to the group’s reputation. Even statements that are ridiculing towards a particular group of people are almost always included in the provision.”
The District Court believes that the remark on laziness cannot be perceived in any other way than as “derogatory to the group of Somalis’ reputation. It does not express any factual criticism and the purpose of it does not seem to have been to contribute to a constructive debate.”
The article that the man commented on states that only one in five Somalis have a job in Sweden.
Other studies show that only one in ten Somali women work.
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Yes but they are getting around 1a with hate speech bs. Because who’s the moral arbiter on that? One persons hate speech is another persons observation. One persons inconvenient truth is another’s actual unabashed truth.
So if someone said that Swedish men are micro-dicked girlie men, would that be a crime in Sweden? Just asking for a friend.
They’re not very smart either.
By some estimates, Somalis have the lowest IQs in the world.
If I were in Sweden and wrote, “Swedes are beyond insane for letting their country be overrun and ruined by savages,” would I get fined twice?
Coming to the USA if the commie leftists get their way.
Say goodbye to freedom of speech.
someone nuke Sweden and put them out of their misery. What a bunch of fools, cowards, and Moslem-ass kissing idiots.
It’s increasingly becoming illegal to tell the truth.
You’re absolutely right, and that’s why hate speech laws need to be ruled unconstitutional. The SCOTUS and courts keep mucking up clear, constitutional standards. Free speech isn’t free if you don’t allow for speech you don’t like, right?
Somalia’s IQ average is 68.
Whether they are lazy or not doesn’t matter much in today’s hi-tech world.
Government protecting their voter base and tax payer funded social program scams. Stats don’t lie, is there no mentally stable representation in Sweden?
I’ve watched them around St.Cloud. The only thing they do with any speed is talk. And they yak a LOT.
“They’re not very smart either. By some estimates, Somalis have the lowest IQs in the world.”
They’re dirt poor at home, with no schooling. They’re not used to learning. They come here and bring the only ways they know. Their language is verbal, hardly written. They live here as a clan, in apartments, with a male elder ruling all.
Young Somalis here are morphing toward the American ways — using deldorant and condoms, speaking in English, women shaving, American clothing, etc. They want to be like Americans. Gonna take a couple generations.
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