“Words shape and move the lines”
“Words mean something.”
“They shape our reality and can move the boundaries.”
“the Observation is not original, bigger thinkers and more knowledgeable people than I have written a lot about the meanings of words before and during the gruesome crimes.”
“But after New Zealand, we must once again talk about it.”
“the 28-year-old suspected of the attacks, like so many of his predecessors in the terrorism, published a manifesto in which he explains his motivation and the mention of role models and heroes among mass murderers and demagogues.”
“To the list of these men who murder in his övertygelses name, we are forced now put Brenton Tarrant, who in his 74-page booklet lose themselves in the old common notion in contemporary right-wing extremism on the imminent muslim takeover of the western world.”
“Then the Fbi yesterday at a press conference, released its annual report, reminded the senior analyst Ahn-Za Hagström about the words we use.”
“About how an increasingly virulent rhetoric among politicians and commentators are moving the boundaries for what is allowed to say. About how extremists are thereby forced to become even more extreme, to reach out.”
“We had this debate after Breivik. The terrorist turned out to have found nourishment and the context of the radical, national högermiljöer online. Environments that taught him that he was not alone, and that encouraged and inspired to journey towards the 22 July 2011.”
“the Magazines took yrvaket impression, commenting in the articles on the sites shut down. The clean-up was necessary: the big mediehusens websites had been hijacked by people with extreme views and even the approaching rain were muslims, bögarnas and feministernas wrong.”
“But the years went by, new debates took over, and today, tens of thousands of people were involved in all these stand-up-groups that Facebook nowadays is full of.”
“It’s here the hatred has moved, it is this our time of fellowship for the xenophobia and contempt against the abnormal are to be found.”
“Word is starting to be used in a new way, a new meaning. Hatred becomes a glue that holds the group together, give you confidence and create a sense of community.”
“right-wing extremists encourage and urge on, people know that the nazis certainly can be nice. So moved the boundaries even a bit.”
“At the press conference warned the Fbi of how the extreme right and the looser xenophobic groups approaching each other and together build a new and stronger front.”
“the Psychology behind the same.”
“the Flow is strong. It is a flow that goes to switch the coins. Political representatives for even decent parties trying to win votes with comments slöjförbud and böneutrop, barely disguised in the rhetoric on the suppression of hedersförtryck and yrvaket interest for noise levels.”
“Akilov found support on the net, so even Darren Osborne, who two months after the murders on the Drottninggatan shopping street, drove a rented truck straight into a crowd of people outside a mosque in London.”
“the Author Ola Larsmo reminds of the similarities between these two terrorists in his contribution to the anthology, ”Handbook for democrats”.”
” ”The common denominator seems to be hatgrupperna online. This occurs an eerie symmetry between islamisten and muslimhataren”, writes Larsmo.”
“the Members of the groups feel hot, Ahmed, Ali and Mohammed. Or Nils, Thomas and Anna. The mechanisms, the psychology behind the phenomenon, are the same.”
“What does that do to a human being, when the use of language that would not be allowed on the job or in a conversation on the bus with the neighbor is not only tolerated, but received with applause, likes and ryggdunkningar? “
“But nothing is new. The historian Ben Kiernan reveals in her book about the folkmordens history, ”Blood and soil”, to every hideous war crime is preceded by the escalation of the language.”
“From colonial extermination and nazi germany to Srebrenica and our time of terror runs the words. Those who have such an immense power over people.”
“I have no solution. It is not possible to legislate against hatred. Nor against the rhetoric that upsets some.”
“But we all have a responsibility. A responsibility for the words we use. And a responsibility to speak up.”
