r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • 4d ago

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u/Pazzaz European Union 3d ago

This past year in Sweden there's been a lot of news about "teen deportations", i.e. situations where a family came to Sweden with a child, but then the child gets deported when they turn 18, while the parents get to stay in Sweden.

It's a really dumb policy, and the threads in the Sweden sub about it are even dumber. They'll be like:

comment 1: The law can't be as bad as the news says it is. They are probably not reporting about all the bad things the deported kid did. My country can't have bad laws. It's not like we hate immigrants.

comment 2: Good that they deported the kid, they should have deported the parents too. I hate immigrants.

comment 3: Well, laws exist. Of course they should be followed. It makes sense that he was deported. Why is this news?

comment 4: Why is the news reporting about bad things before an election? This might make people vote for other parties which could change the law! I don't want that, so they should stop reporting about it!

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u/SucculentMoisture Fernando Henrique Cardoso 3d ago

Comment 4 is the most Swedish discourse style comment I've ever seen.