Talk:Sjöbo Municipality

Refugee controversy

It's important to include in this the fact that Sjöbo, for almost all other Swedes (whether from Gothenburg, Malmö, Stockholm, the smaller towns or the the rural districts) became synonymous with racism and xenophobia. TV and Radio-shows used (and still do) 'Sjöbo' as interchangeably with 'backwards racist intolerance'. The racist white pride political party Sjöbopartiet[1] (Sjöbo Party) recieved 18.3% of the votes in the last election which was lot lower than the 31.8% they recieved in the 1994 election but it's still a pretty high number. I don't care much for the understanding POV tone in the paragraphs which detailed how hard it had been on the poor townspeople of Sjöbo when people of different skin colors showed up. ALL other towns and cities in Sweden accepted immigrants (most took in a lot more per capita than Sjöbo did) and NONE implemented such xenophobic politics as Sjöbo did. So I don't think the culture of racism in Sjöbo should/can be blamed on immigrants. Sources for all my statements can be easily provided or anyone can just do a google-search on Sjöbo + racism or Sjöbo + Nazi. Tsaddik Dervish 00:53, 16 August 2005 (UTC)

I'm sure you are right. In fact I had written seomthing like that in an earlier version, but its been removed since. Also two external links I added have been removed. (NB I haven't been monitoring the page). But its nice to see there is interest about the article :-) --Fred-Chess 17:28, August 16, 2005 (UTC)

Oh -- I forgot. Feel free to continue improving the article :-) --Fred-Chess 17:30, August 16, 2005 (UTC)

I've just read your version and it was, to say the least, a much more accurate and truthful article than the one I stumbled across. Your material should be reinserted. Here we got a small town of 6,000 people who's only claim to "fame" is the racist connotations the town's name brings. Not to include this in the article would be dishonest. International reserach has been made to try to find out what actually happened/happens in Sjöbo. They use Sjöbo as an example in Swedish high schools when they talk about racism & group mentality. As you wrote in your version, movies have been made about the phenomena.

It seems the stormfrontpeople are, unfortunately, quite Internet savvy. I've just listed 19 sources on the Talk:Sweden Democrats page in an effort to prove that the Sweden Democrats (the Sjöbo Party's sisterparty) are considered xenophobic and racist by all of the seven political parties represented in parliament, all major newspapers, former members of SD, the Church of Sweden, academia etc.

Anyways, thanks for the information. :-) --Tsaddik Dervish 04:32, 17 August 2005 (UTC)