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Country seen as champion of equal rights faces reckoning after senior politician says she felt compelled to quit

Increasing hate, threats and harassment against female politicians are scaring women away from public life and forcing them to censor themselves, the Swedish government’s equality agency has said, warning that this poses a “big threat to democracy.”

Women’s safety in politics has come under heightened scrutiny in the Scandinavian country since October, when Anna-Karin Hatt resigned as leader of the Centre party after only five months in office, citing hate and threats.

“To constantly feel like you need to look over your shoulder and [to] not feel completely safe, not even at home … I am affected by it much more deeply than I thought I would [be],” she said at the time.

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[-] troed@fedia.io 41 points 1 day ago

Context: Centerpartiet ("The Centre party") has been rather uniquely targeted by the troll factories (russian / right-wing) here in Sweden since they're the only non-left party in our parliament saying NO to cooperating/ruling together with our fascist party ("Sverigedemokraterna"). They're the good economic-right without the authoritarianism and white power stuff.

And yes, it seems the level of hatred was a lot higher for the last woman party leader (Lööf) and now Hatt. In between them there was a male for a while who was mostly anonymous.

[-] wooffersyt@lemmings.world 4 points 1 day ago

All democracies are backsliding into fascism.

I have this idea that North Korea is just a testing ground to see what (((they))) can get away with. All rulers would love to have an iron grip over their populace like the Kim family does.

We're probably going to need to make new countries at some point in order to avoid oligarchs and authoritarians.

[-] orclev@lemmy.world 16 points 1 day ago

There's a certain irony in someone using a racist dog whistle complaining about fascism.

[-] myrmidex@belgae.social 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Those new countries will be taken over by moneyed interests in a heartbeat.

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