Stockholm rejects ‘bizarre’ US letter urging city to scrap diversity initiatives
Stockholm rejects ‘bizarre’ US letter urging city to scrap diversity initiatives
City official says it will not comply with request seeking to impose Donald Trump’s rollback of diversity measures
A city official in Stockholm has said the municipality has no plans to comply after one of its offices received a letter seeking to impose Donald Trump’s rollback of diversity measures, in what is believed to be the first such missive sent to a foreign government.
“It’s so bizarre,” said Jan Valeskog, Stockholm’s vice-mayor for planning. “It’s our political priorities that count, not the ones from this embassy or any other embassies.”
Our government is now the fucking "Karen", trying to control other countries, and demanding to speak with their managers...
It's been like that for over a century my guy.
Yeah, like this isn't new haha, we're just a lot less sneaky and diplomatic about it with this admin.
😂 😂
If diversity is so bad, why won't the US take their "win" against DEI and immigration and let Europe fall behind 'murica in whatever they think they're winning at?
You can't fight it with logic.
For the same reason that communism was "doomed to fail" in the Americas by means of propaganda, assassinations, and training fascist death squads.
That is the next step, if we won't comply, they'll try to undermine anyone who makes them look bad, same with russia and Ukraine.
Valeskog said Stockholm had no intention of complying. “Of course, we’ll not sign it, we won’t return it, we’ll do nothing about it,” he said.
not even archival?
The American exceptionalism is really kicking into high gear now.
It’s the True Beleivers™ at it again. Same batch selling the American Dream©, you can Pick Yourself Up By Your Bootstraps, Supply Side Jesus, you can be President, too, and America Is The Best Country On Earth ™.
Never mind America has been completely enshittified by its own propaganda and corporations, and insists you believe in American Freedom while pointing a gun at you.
“If you do not agree to sign this document, we would appreciate it if you could provide detailed reasons, which we will forward to our legal teams.”
The equivalent of not letting you unsubscribe from a spammy mailing list unless you provide a reason.
This being a totally different legal jurisdiction makes the whole thing nothing more that an empty threat and pretty sad attempt at bullying, which can be safelly ignored which is exactly what the Stockholm authorities are doing.
https://www.sverigesradio.se/artikel/fjellner-m-da-far-usa-klara-sig-utan-stockholms-avlopp
Fjellner was even more blunt, "good luck without our services."
Hilarious.
In March, European officials lambasted the US after companies across the continent said they had received letters informing them that the Trump administration’s crackdown on diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives also applied to foreign firms looking to do business with the US government.
Is this real? Lmfao
Lmao - how tf no marketing team made memes about this??
(Or how else am I to know?)l
Imagine what the MAGAs would be shouting when Russia would send letters around.
Nothing?
Nah they’d be shouting in russian
A good number would just comply
Perhaps Sweden should tell the US to go fuck themselves.
There is a Swedish short movie about a similar incident about 20 years ago: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1hvo3QOHtaA
Not urging so much as demanding.
I’m more worried about the orgs that will quietly comply rather than openly laughing about it.