New Swedish Words

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  “Tintingate”—the reaction after Stockholm's Kulturhuset library's youth department threw out Tintin albums which painted malicious portraits of black people and had a colonial perspective.

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  He said it best: 'You send out the wrong signal, that is what people pick up. Don't you understand? You care about something, you fight for it. You hit a wall, you push through it...' Captain Haddock about failing. From "The Adventures of Tintin"
  "Tintingate"—the reaction after Stockholm's Kulturhuset library's youth department threw out Tintin albums which painted malicious portraits of black people and had a colonial perspective.

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  "Tårtgate” (cake gate)—a word that was created as a reaction when Minister for Culture and Sports Lena Adelsohn Liljeroth was photographed cutting a cake in the likeness of a stereotypical naked African tribal woman, in the nude and with a creamy blood-red sponge filling.

• Compare this to “tårtgate” (cake gate)—a word that was created as a reaction when Minister for Culture and Sports Lena Adelsohn Liljeroth was photographed cutting a cake in the likeness of a stereotypical naked African tribal woman, in the nude and with a creamy blood-red sponge filling.

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