This genuinely threw me because I had no idea there was anything wrong with freedom of speech in Sweden. This because I get consistently less flak when I express controversial views among Swedish friends than when among Americans. My handful of Swedish friends appears not to be representative.
On the other hand, the same is true in Norway, Denmark and Finland and they have quite significantly less issues. Also, I realise ‘everyone is happy’ was poor wording. A better one would be ‘everyone has agreed this is a workable compromise that it’s not worth fighting over, for a value of everyone that is approx. 95% of the population’
This genuinely threw me because I had no idea there was anything wrong with freedom of speech in Sweden. This because I get consistently less flak when I express controversial views among Swedish friends than when among Americans. My handful of Swedish friends appears not to be representative.
On the other hand, the same is true in Norway, Denmark and Finland and they have quite significantly less issues. Also, I realise ‘everyone is happy’ was poor wording. A better one would be ‘everyone has agreed this is a workable compromise that it’s not worth fighting over, for a value of everyone that is approx. 95% of the population’