John VanSickle wrote:
> andrel wrote:
> 
>> In general if you insult the ruling class that is in general not 
>> considered slander. Nor if you insult the group you belong to. You 
>> might not like that, but that does not make it wrong. ;)
> 
> The men of Sweden do not constitute a ruling class, 
Why not?
> and the lady in 
> question most certainly did not insult the class to which she belonged.
> 
> And I daresay that if you insult the ruling class in other countries, it 
> most certainly is punished as slander.
I don't think that if I would write an article where I would point out 
how inferior the white male is I would be prosecuted or even frowned 
upon no matter how good the arguments. Yet if I did the same for black 
persons or for women, many people would object and if I managed to give 
the impression that I was serious I might well face prosecution.
I have seen some examples of racism by black people (or whatever the 
current PC term is) at Oprah that scared the hell out of me (as a white 
European male who is not accustomed to open racism), yet were treated 
mildly in the program. I think that a member of the KKK would have 
received a slightly different reception.

> 
> The Swedish government has decided that only some forms of racism, 
> sexism, and other forms of tribalism will be punished.  Everyone else 
> gets carte blanche.
> 
Not everyone and not in all circumstances. A black women in the 
Netherlands would get away with insulting whites, black men, protestants 
etc. but not african muslims.

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