Kristina Boréus is professor of political science at Stockholm University. Recent research projects include a comparative study of populist right parties and discrimination of immigrants in Austria, Denmark and Sweden.
Incitement to hatred against 'non-Scandinavians' is widely circulated on the internet, contributing to the legitimizing of right-wing extremist violence and the political exclusion of immigrants. If this does not endanger the political system as such, we should worry that it jeopardizes the right