Sweden's Twitter Experiment: Good Idea or Recipe for Disaster?

lol

Unless they would know more about the person and know they wouldn't have twittahreah, then they just shouldn't trust that any citizen would have good twitt sense.

It's a brilliant marketing idea. Bravo!

27 and doesn't know what a Jew is?

It displays Sweden's irresponsibility in educating their young. It's starting to look like they want to repeat the experiment. Might be responsible for the crime and suicide rate there.

She might have heard of them, but didn't really know all the details. She didn't seem to know why there's apparently a lot of people who hate Jews, and wanted to know why, coupling that with asking how you'd even know who's Jewish and who isn't. There are more complexities with the term "Jew" that I can understand confusion with, such as there's the Jewish people, and the Jewish religion, and they are no longer confined to the same group, causing confusion with terminology. Also, she may not know English very well, and the translation didn't come across like she wanted it to. On the other hand, she may full well be trolling. :D

It proves there are stupid people in every country.

It's kInda confusing. :O

Jews have a lot of explaining to do.

No; Your parents and religious leaders do.

Sure its a decent idea, but dont hand over the password to idiots. She is 27 and doesnt know what Jewish people are, come the hell on. Dont they read books in sweden? Did they never release the Swedish translation of "Schindler's List?"

It seems that at least they released a DVD of it in Swedish. However, I haven't seen it and I live in the US, and I'm about her age. It's not the end all-be all of Holocaust information. I don't know how life is in Sweden. I don't know what books they read, or what they teach children in schools, neither do I assume such. I also don't know how well this woman did in school, or what classes she took. It could be that the details of WWII are as clear to her as the details of the French Revolution are to me. There were people who didn't like other people, so they killed those people. I don't know all the names and reasons. I learned them, but that doesn't mean I memorized them. Sweden was also neutral during WWII. It's very possible that she has never seen or met a Jew, so why would she know all the intricacies of their race and religion? Let alone why some people hate them. She's not an idiot for not knowing what a certain group of people is.

Or she could be trolling. :D

Maybe a better word than idiot would be sheltered.

It's hard to say when we don't have all the information about her, her background, and her life. It's very possible that she might be sheltered. Just as it's very possible that she just wasn't a good student or it wasn't something that was heavily covered in her class.

Aye aye aye. What did they expect?

I say good idea, because it is always important to "shine a light" on things, even if they reflect something we do not like. I am not saying that this "tweeter is anti semetic", just lacking the education or perhaps, basic knowledge.
The Jewish population of Sweden
is estimated at about 20,000 that pass the halakhic criteria. Of those about 7,000 is a member of any congregation.
Increasing Anti-Semitism is occurring in Sweden. Members of the Swedish Parliament have attended anti-Israel rallies where the Israeli flag was burned while the flags of Hamas and Hezbollah were waved, and the rhetoric was often anti-Semitic—not just anti-Israel. But such public rhetoric is not branded hateful and denounced. Charles Small, director of the Yale University Initiative for the Study of Anti-Semitism, stated that “Sweden is a microcosm of contemporary anti-Semitism. It’s a form of acquiescence to radical Islam, which is diametrically opposed to everything Sweden stands for.” Per Gudmundson, chief editorial writer for Svenska Dagbladet, has sharply criticized politicians who he claims offer “weak excuses” for Muslims accused of anti-Semitic crimes. “Politicians say these kids are poor and oppressed, and we have made them hate. They are, in effect, saying the behavior of these kids is in some way our fault.”

I find this really amusing. For one week, this complete moron gets a chance to represent the entire country of Sweden with this national Twitter account.

Apparently the organizers knew all about the kind of offensive drivel that comes out of her head BEFORE they even selected her. It's working just as planned.....they're getting a thousand new followers for this account every hour, and you KNOW they've gotta be LOVING the world-wide free press they're getting from this.

We live in a world where THIS represents the nation of Sweden:


THIS is a television celebrity:


And THIS is the leader of the greatest nation on earth:

Andy Warhol was right.....

I don't know how Obama fits into this discussion--but some people seem to use any forum that comes along aa a chance to abuse him.

I totally understand his point. It was more of a sarcastic sum up of everything he just said. I think it actually fit in well with his point.

Should Sonja Abrahamsson (who has the IQ of a small soap dish and the sensitivity of a chainsaw) really be representing Sweden?

Does Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi deserve to be a television celebrity? Fuggedaboutit!

Should the man Bill Clinton called 'an amateur' have ever been elected president?

I see that you rarely answer political questions....but I thought that the tie-in was pretty obvious. As a society, we really don't care if people are qualified or not. We love our trainwrecks and we just can't pull ourselves away from watching them.

Truly ANYONE can be world-famous for 15 minutes.

Right? lol.

I do believe that the Swedish Tweeter was saying the only way to distinguish a Jewish person is by the fact that they are uncircumcised. If i recall correctly, devout Jews are not allowed to get circumcised.

your recollection needs work.

They did until Rome converted. At first you had to become Jewish to be a Christian. Try to understand, Christ's passion was to help Jews become better Jews. Not start a new religion. Other rituals replaced circumcision in Christianity. Circumcision can be a health benefit do to cleanliness and reduces sensitivity in men. This results in a more pleasurable experience for women.

esspecially if you give it to a person such as Abrahamsson who appears to never have read a book (particularlly history) in her life what a loser

I think it still has value. If this is the first person to cause an outrage in 9 months, I would say that is pretty good. In America it would take a week for people to be upset.

It seems to me that she wasn't being hateful or nasty, but rather naieve. In my opinion, it says more about Sweden's educational system that a 27 year old is ignorant of these matters.

The Swedish newspaper Skånska Dagbladet reported that attacks on Jews in Malmo totaled 79 in 2009, about twice as many as the previous year, according to police statistics. In December 2010, the Jewish human rights organization Simon Wiesenthal Center issued a travel advisory concerning Sweden, advising Jews to express "extreme caution" when visiting the southern parts of the country due to an increase in verbal and physical harassment of Jewish citizens in the city of Malmö.

However, if they're considering this to be harassment or an attack, then they're just looking for a reason to feel victimized. This is not hateful or racist. She evens asks why people hate Jews so much because she can't understand it.

Yet, there are always people with little culture, lacking respect and launching negative or insulting questions. I hope, though, that more sensible people will present ideas or represent public opinions in Sweden, which really reflect the positive image of Sweden we use to have.

Not everyone is smart. This was bound to happen sooner or later, no matter what country it was from. Everyone has opinions and this was just one persons opinion in one country. What this person thinks is not that important, just like twitter is not that important.

There are idiots in any population. This won't be the last.

I guess the "experiment" obviously shows us that it is clearly a recipe for disaster....Imagine if a killer, sex criminal, or other demented person gets the account for a week.

(As an FYI: In 2009 there were 15,700 reported sexual offenses in Sweden, a rise of 8% compared to 2008, of which 5,940 were rape and sexual harassment (including exhibitionism) accounted for 7,590 reports. In April 2009, it was reported that sex crimes had increased by 58% over the previous ten years.According to a 2009 European Union study, Sweden has one of the highest rates of reported rape in Europe.)

".......Lawyer Ann Christine Hjelm, who has investigated violent crimes in Svea high court, found that 85 per cent of the convicted rapists were born on foreign soil or by foreign parents."

http://fjordman.blogspot.ca/2...

I mean, it's not necessarily a bad idea.

I don't think she was trying to be mean, I'm pretty sure she just didn't understand and was sharing her questions/views and looking for others'. So what's the big deal? WWII (with everything it encompassed) happened, we all know it, it was a very VERY terrible thing. Is it too soon to talk about? We do in history classes.
She just seems a bit naive, like she was never really educated about the topic? It was tactless, but still.. What a better way to find information than on the World Wide Web, eh?
*I* don't understand the "outrage". Please explain it to me someone if you could, without being negative...

The part Germany played in the Murder of Jews is actually a small part of the systematic murder of Jews over the past 2000 years. Sonja's question goes right to the full depth of why. In 1960 I was in 10th grade with a World History teacher (Mr Marwell), German born, living in Germany during those times. He was very honest about it. German's were seduced by Hitler's cry for racial purity and didn't care how they got there. We here in the US are on a very slippery slope in our politics that might lead in the same direction. People are tired of hearing about the Holocaust in Germany. Maybe we should change to examples of Edie Amin, Joseph Stalin, Genghis Kahn, Sodom Hussein, or a host of other genocidal mass murdering tyrants. The fact that she doesn't already have that knowledge is very troubling to me.

Would never work in America. But I don't get what was so bad with what she said. Maybe someone could explain?

I think that there could still be some potential for it it is kind of interesting