Are media, arts and culture really starting to censor themselves? Det er titlen på en hel serie interview med flere danskere. I dag Tøger Seidenfaden, – tidligere på ugen Flemming Rose, Carsten Jensen og Lotte Garbers. Fra indledningen på Flemming Rose-interviewet, der er ret godt:
Ranked first in the Reporters Without Borders press freedom index, Denmark is known for a deep attachment to free expression and press freedom. This was seen again on 16 September 2009, when the Copenhagen-based daily Politiken published Thomas Rathsack’s entire book Ranger – at War with the Elite as a free insert after the defence ministry tried to get the courts to ban it. The book relates Rathsack’s experiences as a member of a Danish special forces unit carrying our sensitive operations inside Afghanistan.
Link til resten HER. Og fra interviewet med Carsten Jensen:
Is freedom of expression in danger in Denmark?
No. Obviously there is the Kurt Westergaard case. When someone breaks into your house and tries to kill you, that is undeniably a threat. But the question is knowing whether or not this is just a symbol, and therefore an exception. Or if everyone who did what he did would risk the same fate. Personally I think it is an isolated case.
No. Det sagde han minsandten. Og han lyver, så det vasker sig:
Look at what the politicians say. No one is threatening them. They do not have bodyguards. They do not censor themselves when they talk about Muslims.
Pia Kjærsgaard, Naser Khader, Statsministeren og mange flere har haft sikkerhedsvagter døgnet rundt i flere år. På grund af muslimer. Bertel Haarder har udtalt til Jyllands-Posten, at han har pålagt sig selvcensur. På grund af muslimer. Har Carsten Jensen overhovedet ikke noget samvittighedsbegreb?
Link – der er mere HER. Næste er Lotte Garbers:
Is freedom of expression in danger in Denmark?
It is a very sensitive question, because we do not have any open debate in Denmark about integration and immigration. As a result, it came as a great shock that the publication of the cartoons could produce such a reaction internationally. We found ourselves at the front of the international stage for the first time and we had to deal with terrorist threats. It is the reason why this question continues to be politically very sensitive.
Mere HER. Og Tøger Seidenfaden, der udstiller sin oikofobi:
Why does free expression continue to be a prominent political issue in Denmark? Is it under threat ?
It is very important to understand the very specific context and logic of this debate in Denmark. It all started with the storm over the cartoons. Since then, the criteria used to measure freedom of expression is the degree of aggressiveness towards the Muslim minority. Crudely put, if we do not spend our time insulting Muslims from morning to night, it is because there is no longer any freedom of expression. This is the context in which you have to analyse the results of a poll recently published in the LO trade union’s magazine.
Link HER til resten.
Andre kilder: Jyllands-Posten, DR, Berlingske Tidende,
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