There is much irony in this story. Follow along.
The organizers of Sweden’s annual politics week has asked police to prevent a neo-Nazi group from attending the event, after initially allowing the controversial group to rent a space there by “mistake.”
How do you make a “mistake” in renting space to a neo-Nazi group?
Why are there even Nazis in Sweden? Do they not know their own history with the Third Reich?
And the municipality’s technical committee, which is responsible for the hosting and general organization of the event, lacks the power to reverse its decision.
How can an organization have the authority to grant a permit but not to rescind a permit?
It is now asking police to intervene, stating in a letter that it is “wrong for organizers or organizations who clearly stand for anti-democratic and violence-promoting messages to be allowed to rent land from Gotland municipality,” The Local reported.
This is what struck me as funny from the US context. The Antifa movement is also anti-democratic and violence-promoting. By this logic, Antifa would be illegal in the US (and Sweden). But you can bet that they would never apply that standard to the violent communists.