“Words are weapons. If you keep bombarding people with warnings about the “illegal”, “bad”, “threatening” immigrants, who invade the land, and your culture. If you continue to demonise, then at some point someone is going to explode. The words will become a reality,” he says in the video.
Among other things, the Alexandra Paschalidou starts the video by saying:
“Pig with black hair.” “If you don’t leave the country in 24 hours, I will kill you and your family”
When the anonymous letter arrived at my home in the mail, I was 9 years old.
I came to Sweden six years.
My father was a Greek immigrant. We lived in a place where they lived mainly refugees and immigrants. In a family without books or newspapers.
My mother took the letter and went to the police.
When he returned, he said, they can’t do anything because the threat is anonymous.
I am grateful that I work as a journalist in Sweden.
From my first day on the job, 20 years before, been called a whore, slut, disgusting immigrant.
They tell me that they will cut my tongue. That will cut off my fingers. I’ll break my knees.
That I should kill myself, or I’ll kill them.
Threaten me with gang rape, sexual torture. There are days when I wake up in the morning with verbal abuse and sleeping with sexist, racist comments in my head.
When I went to the police they told me: we can’t do anything, the threat is anonymous.
Unfortunately, I’m not the only one. I’m one of the millions of people who fear for their lives, they feel insecure and have lost confidence in justice.
Nowadays, in addition to anonymous, there is a new threat from politicians and MEDIA that normalize and promote as ordinary sexism, and racism.
Words are weapons. If you keep bombarding people with warnings about the “illegal”, “bad”, “threatening” immigrants, who invade the land, and your culture. If you continue to demonise, then at some point someone is going to explode. The words will be put into practice.
Democracy is a word. It requires daily action from all of us. Hatred is not freedom of expression. It is a crime.
If free speech is the oxygen of democracy, we must ensure that each citizen can breathe.
Let’s fight. Let’s fight for pluralism, unity in diversity. Let’s fight for democracy.
“Pig with black hair, if you don’t leave the country we will kill you and your family”
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