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Feminist politician equates Pirate Party supporters with rapists

A blog post comparing file sharing advocates to rapists has caused a backlash for the feminist member of the Riksdag who authored the entry.

Last Sunday, Annika Qarlsson, who also heads the board of the Centre Party's women's organization Centerkvinnorna, reflected on her blog about the success of the Pirate Party in recent European Parliament elections.

"[H]ere's a thought and a reflection connected to the Pirate Party's success with many young men, who voted for them in order to protect their personal privacy. [I'm] thinking about the statistics which came out the other day that show there are innumerable young women who are raped by young men who they barely know or don't know at all," wrote Qarlsson.

"And I can't make sense of it - do young men think that privacy is important or don't they?"


One of the main problem with the Swedish political system is that there aren't enough people in the political parties to staff the 349 seats in parliament without resorting to the deployment of semi-retards.

The number of seats should be cut from 349 to 99.

   

Peak oil is not an energy crisis. It is a liquid fuel crisis.

by Starvid (arvid.hallen at gmail.com) on Thu Jun 18th, 2009 at 05:43:44 AM EST
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Starvid:
statistics which came out the other day that show there are innumerable young women
If there are statistics, how can they be innumerable?

The brainless should not be in banking. — Willem Buiter
by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Thu Jun 18th, 2009 at 05:47:44 AM EST
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You tell me...

Peak oil is not an energy crisis. It is a liquid fuel crisis.
by Starvid (arvid.hallen at gmail.com) on Thu Jun 18th, 2009 at 05:51:05 AM EST
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If illiteracy would be unacceptable in a member of parliament, why is innumeracy acceptable?

The brainless should not be in banking. — Willem Buiter
by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Thu Jun 18th, 2009 at 05:54:19 AM EST
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Illiteracy is not unacceptable in the Swedish parliament. See for example the blog of Monica Green.

Peak oil is not an energy crisis. It is a liquid fuel crisis.
by Starvid (arvid.hallen at gmail.com) on Thu Jun 18th, 2009 at 06:20:42 AM EST
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Was the original blogpost in english ? It could be a bad translation.

Reading what is there, I suspect there's probably a good point screaming to be revealed. Sadly I doubt it's within this MP's capability to do so.

keep to the Fen Causeway

by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Thu Jun 18th, 2009 at 06:08:45 AM EST
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The original post is in Swedish. I have read the original. The translation is not bad. The MP is.

Peak oil is not an energy crisis. It is a liquid fuel crisis.
by Starvid (arvid.hallen at gmail.com) on Thu Jun 18th, 2009 at 06:21:48 AM EST
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