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Teen girls are being used as hitwomen in Sweden's organized crime wars: "Young kids are thirsty for blood" (www.cbsnews.com)
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"I had a case involving a 15-year-old girl recruited to shoot someone in the head," Stockholm prosecutor Ida Arnell told AFP. "She was able to choose the type of mission she wanted, in other words, to aim at the guy's door or his head. She chose the head."

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[–] GissaMittJobb@lemmy.ml 1 points 12 hours ago

I assume you're implying racism. There's absolutely latent racism in there as well. But even if you look like a Swede, speak swedish, but have an accent or dress in a way that stands out or break some of the other tenants of jantelagen people will steer away. People of non-european descent just have it 10x harder.

I wasn't primarily implying racism, but it's probably part of the equation. I was moreso thinking about other forces mentioned in my reply, like the very large issue of complete housing market malfunction.

I assume you're implying racism. There's absolutely latent racism in there as well. But even if you look like a Swede, speak swedish, but have an accent or dress in a way that stands out or break some of the other tenants of jantelagen people will steer away. People of non-european descent just have it 10x harder.

I get the feeling that this might be a more rural attribute, but that might be my personal experience just being different.

I wasn't saying it was completely intentional, I was saying it was part of the insular nature of Swedes. If you're talking about kommun housing then I agree, that's procedural, but it does require someone who knows the process. But if you want to rent second-hand, you need to meet that person and if you're not a Swede many people will require a Swede to vouch for you.

I think this is just another aspect of the housing crisis being the everything crisis - there's no real need for second hand renting in a paradigm of complete housing abundance, as we had at the end of Miljonprogrammet.