Christian Christensen
Christian Christensen, American in Sweden, is Professor of Journalism at Stockholm University. Follow him on Twitter: @ChrChristensen
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Views Wednesday, August 16, 2017 Trump Keeps His Promise - And Delivers Hate CD editor's note: The Swedish-language version of this post first appeared in today's Aftonbladet . There are many, many people in the United States right now wondering how we got to this point. How we could have a President of the United States unwilling and unable to clearly and firmly condemn... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, May 31, 2017 Conspiracy Theories and the Right-Wing Ecosystem The conspiracy theory is a well-worn theme within popular culture. From The Manchurian Candidate to JFK to The X-Files, our understanding of these theories are as ones where the stakes are at the highest levels, and usually involve some attempt at national or global domination. The main players are... Read more |
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Views Friday, February 10, 2017 "I’ve Never Been So Ashamed To Be an American." Really? "I’ve never been so ashamed to be an American." We have heard that a lot since the election of Donald Trump. We have heard many Americans express their disappointment and outrage over where our country is going. Over how humanity and the rule of law have quickly given ground to the evils of ethno-... Read more |
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Views Friday, January 20, 2017 Until He Shows Respect, We Owe Donald Trump Nothing But Resistance A Swedish language version of this article ran today in Aftonbladet , a daily newspaper in Sweden. Today, Donald John Trump was officially sworn in as the 45th President of the United States of America. Trump supporters will argue that, as President, he is deserving of our respect. He won the... Read more |
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Views Monday, January 02, 2017 20 New Year’s Resolutions for News, Journalism and Social Media 1. Avoid use of headlines and writing of tweets that misrepresent and/or oversimplify the content of linked-to articles. Headlines matter as they frame the stories for users. 2. Call racism “racism”. 3. Call sexism “sexism”. 4. Call terrorism “terrorism”, and be consistent in the use of the term... Read more |
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Views Friday, November 11, 2016 Discrimination More Appealing than Experts Thought Possible We were told that this was a high point for postwar democracy: a moment in which an entire nation sent a clear, unambiguous message that the politics of hate, racism and ethno-nationalism would be rejected in favor of decency and restraint. And the result of the second round of the 2002 French... Read more |
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Views Thursday, October 20, 2016 Election 2016: It's a Sad, Sad World I‘ve been interviewed 5 or 6 times here in Sweden over the last 24 hours about Trump, which has given me time to think over what all of this means. My only firm conclusion is that regardless of who wins on November 8, the US has lost. And this is probably the clearest case of a national self-... Read more |
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Views Sunday, October 09, 2016 Trump’s Misogyny and the Media’s “Righteous-Indignation Dollar” Twenty years ago, the great Bill Hicks had a classic stand-up bit in which he imagined ad executives watching his rant against advertising, and saying to each other: “Oh, I see what Bill is doing! He’s going after the anti-marketing dollar, the righteous-indignation dollar! That’s a good dollar!”... Read more |
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Views Friday, September 23, 2016 The Unbearable Whiteness of Being (Donald Trump) If there is one thing that the Trump phenomenon has taught us, it is that, for Trump, it is not easy being white in America. Being white means never-ending guard duty, defending the country against those who would seek to rip apart the bleached fabric of American society. For Trump and his... Read more |
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Further Monday, August 29, 2016 Kaepernick vs. Trump: Making America Great Again Read more |