Mass Murder Of Immigrants In Örebro, Sweden And Trump’s Deportations Of Illegal Immigrants In The US: Why These Things Happen
The Oasis Reporters
February 14, 2025
The world was shocked at a recent event that happened in the Swedish city of Örebro, a city swirling with immigrants from third world countries when a lone gunman went to a spot where he was bound to find migrants into Sweden and he did considerable damage by shooting them.
Then he killed himself.
Why do immigrants cross borders to not only developed countries that are seemingly safe?
Many of the migrants are fleeing war, religious intolerance, hunger and despicable political leadership. So they go to swell populations in stable and prosperous countries. After all, everyone deserves a good life. But there is resentment and hate from a few people.
But White victimhood has also crossed international borders. The idea of white people falling victim to an “onslaught” of refugees and immigrants has become a major factor in elections across Europe. The meaning of “PC” is changing, with political correctness making way for patriotic correctness. That’s what Trump’s “America First” is all about.
Trump’s campaign slogan “Make America Great Again” appealed to white victimhood. He focused on a white electorate who feels disillusioned by demographic and sociopolitical changDonald Trump, white victimhood and the South African far-righte in the US. They feel that American values are in danger, and hence there is the need to “take back America”.
White victimhood is a right-wing tactic that inverts the left’s narratives of minority discrimination and neocolonialism, according to Charles Villet, Lecturer in Philosophy, School of Social Science, Monash South Africa, Monash University. He was writing in Donald Trump, White victimhood and the South African Far-right in The Conversation
Africa and the rest of the underdeveloped or developing world has a deep seated problem that is rooted in pathetically inferior political leadership which in some cases often asserts itself on a population while ruling them with a lack of love or or a mindset to under-develop the land. Yet they stay in power to feather their own nest at times by killing those opposed to them.
Therefore people flee.
But see how it played out in Örebro, Sweden.
The Guardian reports:
Most of the people killed by a gunman in the Swedish city of Örebro last week had an immigrant background, police have said, after the prime minister paid tribute to the victims as “people who wanted to do something good, who wanted to contribute to a better society”.
Among those understood to have been killed in Sweden’s deadliest mass shooting, which took place at an adult education centre on Tuesday, were two Syrian men, both refugees, an Eritrean woman, an Iranian woman and a female teacher from Kurdistan.
Niclas Hallgren, the deputy regional police chief for Bergslagen, told SVT: “Most of the victims in the school shooting had a foreign background. Ethnicity is a circumstance that the police have taken into account since early in the investigation when assessing a possible motive.” He added: “It is too early to say that there is a specific reason behind the act.”
Prosecutors said on Monday they had confirmed the identity of the gunman, widely named in the media as Rickard Andersson, 35. He is believed to have killed himself along with 10 others when he attacked Campus Risbergska, an adult education centre where he once attended classes.
In a televised speech on Sunday night, the prime minister, Ulf Kristersson, said a national one-minute silence would be held on Tuesday at midday, a week on from the attack. “Sweden is a country in mourning,” he said.
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Paying tribute to the victims, seven women and three men aged between 31 and 68, Kristersson said: “They came from different places in the world and had different dreams. They were in school to lay the foundation for the future that has now been taken away from them.”
“Hate is not defeated by more hate, but by us uniting and uniting behind all that we love in our country, all that we want to protect and build on.”
Citing the words of the queen, Silvia, who last week during a visit to the school asked: “Where did the beautiful Sweden go?”, Kristersson said there was “only one Sweden”.
“Not us and them. Not young or old. Not born here or born abroad. Not countryside or city. Not right or left,” he said. “We can be different and think differently, but it is our shared responsibility to build this country and to protect it. Especially when so much feels dark.”
Magdalena Andersson, the former prime minister and leader of the main opposition party, the Social Democrats, said in a television appearance alongside Kristersson on Sunday night that “words matter’ and that people with immigrant backgrounds who had been left feeling fearful and excluded by the mass shooting had been failed. She said: “We must use this opportunity to create a turning point in our society.”
Last week, the government announced plans to strengthen its gun laws, including by restricting access to semi-automatic weapons, after the gunman was found to have had a licence to own four weapons, three of which were found beside him.
Greg Abolo
With:
The Conversation
The Guardian
