He said Jews and Sami aren’t Swedish, as a statement against the forced assimilation that these groups have historically been subjected to. He also clarified that Jews and Sami can choose to be Swedish. Saying the opposite that for example Sami are Swedish can be considered offensive.
Nope. He is saying they ‘can adopt a swedish identity’, but they are not swedish. And that this would be about historic forced assimilation is just wishful thinking, and not understandig ethonational ideology (or defending it). SD has the view, presented by several members in various ways, where nationality is based in ethnicity, you are not swedish if you are a citizen, not if you have a swedish identity, only an essence of your ethnicity can make you “swedish”, in this sense. It is not there to protect their identity as a minority, it is there to cause a divide. What you fail to understand – I’m giving you the benefit of doubt here – is that the offensive thing here is to say that there is something beyond how someone identifies: “I’m a swedish jew”, is met with “ah, but then you are not swedish”, because you have only “adopted an identity”. The “opposite” you bring up is not an opposite of this, because not believing that an ethnic essence exists that makes you “swedish”, is not even close to saying “jews are swedish”.
I have a bunch of midwestern Americans who seem to fit their definition of Swedish- I wonder if they’d be happy for a large wave of Minnesotan emigrants.
Except that’s not what he said.
He said Jews and Sami aren’t Swedish, as a statement against the forced assimilation that these groups have historically been subjected to. He also clarified that Jews and Sami can choose to be Swedish. Saying the opposite that for example Sami are Swedish can be considered offensive.
Nope. He is saying they ‘can adopt a swedish identity’, but they are not swedish. And that this would be about historic forced assimilation is just wishful thinking, and not understandig ethonational ideology (or defending it). SD has the view, presented by several members in various ways, where nationality is based in ethnicity, you are not swedish if you are a citizen, not if you have a swedish identity, only an essence of your ethnicity can make you “swedish”, in this sense. It is not there to protect their identity as a minority, it is there to cause a divide. What you fail to understand – I’m giving you the benefit of doubt here – is that the offensive thing here is to say that there is something beyond how someone identifies: “I’m a swedish jew”, is met with “ah, but then you are not swedish”, because you have only “adopted an identity”. The “opposite” you bring up is not an opposite of this, because not believing that an ethnic essence exists that makes you “swedish”, is not even close to saying “jews are swedish”.
I have a bunch of midwestern Americans who seem to fit their definition of Swedish- I wonder if they’d be happy for a large wave of Minnesotan emigrants.