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If history repeats and it does Chicago city council (or its school board or whatever institution it goes to first) will vote not to accept a donation of a statue of him on Monday, February 5, 2057.
Arwin
Fuck Naz… gul
There was an initiative to erect a life-size bronze version of Arwin’s statue in the city of Växjö, but the project was blocked by local politicians of the Centre Party believing that such a statue might promote violence.
“might promote violence”. Good. Violence against Nazis is always morally acceptable and should be encouraged.
Create a 3d printable model of him, and place little statues of him everywhere
Tolerating Nazis promotes violence.
It’s called self defence when defending oneself.
I don’t think there is any other way to promote against Nazis. To many people think Tea & Biscuits and a nice chat is the way to go.
No, just no, there should be no fucking tolerance for the intolerant.
If they don’t want to get punched, they can stop being Nazis.
The way they dress–they are totally asking for it.
What are you on about?
Who’s the kid? I’m ootl
A kid with more integrity than all of maga combined.
He’s a school kid that punched another school kid for holding a pro-ice sign at a school protest against ice.
After announcing he was going to hit him, to which the junior nazi said “tHaT’s AgAiNsT sChOoL cOdE” and that he’ll get in trouble. The gigachad replied “OK” and decked him.
I really think we need to seriously consider “terachad” for this dude
Zettachad
Anyone got a link? I love seeing fascists getting punched.
When that kid lives a long, happy, and healthy life, let him pick if there’s a statue.
She fared poorly, all things considered, and wouldn’t want that experience shared on anyone.
To provide context to anyone that wonders about this, the woman with the handbag wasn’t proud of the event. She faced harassment for it, and for a while she and her partner lived under police protection. She committed suicide at the age of 41, around 3 years after this photo was taken.
Her son is unhappy with the image being used as propaganda.
That is strange. I knew her grandson, who was very proudly boasting about her and her pure hatred for nazis, and this image. He was himself very vocally anti-nazi, that’s how we met.
It’s important to note that according to the article her son is not against the expression against nazis themselves, but rather because of the trauma to having to be constantly reminded of having lost his mother at such a young age. Just so that nobody gets the idea that he’s even remotely defending nazis or their modern Swedish offspring, the Sweden Democrats (Sverigedemokraterna).
Reading the sources, it primarily sounds like she was embarrassed of looking like an old lady in the photo, and afraid of Nazis striking back at her and her family.
One of the sources is her husband’s coworker who said, “Danuta was mentally ill, but she had a solid hatred of Nazis as a Pole. She probably got caught up in the hateful atmosphere that was whipped up against the NRP-demonstrators in Växjö.”
I don’t care for how that’s phrased, both in that he’s speculating about her and that he seems to think you need some kind of personal grudge in order to oppose fascism.
If there’s a source saying she regretted the action in itself, I missed it.
e: I was mistaken about that quote. It’s from the article, but it’s not attributed as a direct quote from the coworker. Swedish doesn’t always use quotation marks, so I read it as a direct quote mistakenly, but it lacks a dash at the start of the paragraph. Without knowing the original I can’t be sure how much the author is paraphrasing or speculating.
I can let you know that there is a lot of white and sane-washing of nazi ideology in Sweden today. The nazi party is literally the largest party in Sweden and could even achieve a majority vote in this fall’s elections. Yes, you read that right.
It says that it’s from the 2015 documentary. It’s linked, but not transcribed. I’ve not listened to it yet so I can’t say either way.
Were it me, I could see myself regretting the general event (händelsen), and the whole thing around it. Don’t think I’d regret punching a nazi. They have it coming.
I unfortunately can’t listen to it myself, so I just went off the text under it and the Expressen article about it. (I can hear, but my brain doesn’t cooperate at listening.) I can’t understand why they don’t just transcribe the entries.
Yeah I was looking for a transcription because I’m not quite in the mood to sit and listen to a documentary right now, but I might tomorrow.
Edit: that article kind of pisses me off. “We don’t get money to make our content accessible.”
We all pay taxes for that content, including deaf people. They should have equal access to it.
Granted this could be a right-wingers thing. I think they restricted how detailed SVT can report on things because “state owned media would unfairly compete with private media otherwise.” Fucking bollocks.
Link to the English version of the same article but I get the sense that it doesn’t have the same level of detail as the Swedish version.
She did, but that seems to be unrelated to the statue or the photo.
The dude she was hitting deserved worse.
Seppo Seluska, a militant from the Nordic Realm Party later convicted for the torture and murder of a gay Jew.
Seppo
Oh, he was American?
(says some imaginary Aussie hehe)
Seppo is a typical Finnish name. They have a small but very vocal nazi minority, especially the Finnish immigrants that came to Sweden after the war. Sweden considered them second or even third class citizens (this holds true to some extent even to this day), so they felt the need to be extra nationalistic as a result, and so got sucked up into the racist/nazi organisations of Sweden. Go figure.
Love the message here, but am I the only one stuck on how short the lady’s statue’s legs look? It’s weirding me out. Can see where her coat ends on the photo, and then on the Statue, and I can’t ignore it haha.
Yeah, there’s a lot wrong with the statue. Considering the sculptor had only the same picture we see to go from, I don’t know why it’s so off.
Apart from the too short legs, the other three things that stand out most to me are the woman’s expression, she’s much more determined in the photo. The coat is too long, it should be a jacket. And, finally, the bag should not be ahead of the arm swing, it should trail, just as it does in the photo, because physics.
There’s some perspective nonsense going on. She’s in a crouched, leaning position and we’re viewing it from the direction she’s leaning instead of the side like in the photo
Its a bronze statue. The artist probably had a small block of bronze and misjudged some when he started carving
She appears to be a stocky person in boxy looking clothing. It might be influencing the perspective.
Her arms, too!
I.chip into that fundraiser. When this kid turns 21 lets make sure he never has to pay for his own drinks.
Shit with the way things are going we should pay for his drink now.
I’ll drink to that! (Or anything really)
