US embassy demands obedience from the city of Stockholm: “Bizarre”. Stockholm’s urban planning office must not work for equality, diversity and inclusion.

https://www.dn.se/sverige/usas-ambassad-kraver-lydnad-av-stockholms-stad-bisarrt/

by Helmer-Bryd

41 comments

  3. I can’t even begin to wrap my head around this level of arrogance and entitlement.

  4. With any luck the US will eventually implode in on itself and we will be free from this dogshit country once and for all

  7. Now I’m curious if all American embassies are sending such remarkable letters around.

  8. Easiest thing would be, for the companies that the embassy deals with, to politely say they’re welcome to find other suppliers/workmen/whatever. Which should make for an interesting result. Imported loo paper, anyone?

  10. SWEDISH POLITICS
    US embassy demands obedience from Stockholm city: “Bizarre”
    Updated 18:57 Published 16:52
    “We will never sign this contract”, says S-mayor Jan Valeskog.

    The Stockholm City Planning Office must not promote gender equality, diversity and inclusion. This is what the US Embassy demands in a letter, with a contract they expect the city to sign.

    – “It’s completely bizarre,” says Jan Valeskog (S), Mayor of Stockholm.
    Text Mia Tottmar

    The embassy begins the letter with “Dear City Planning Office” and then explains that a new policy requires anyone from whom the US government purchases goods and services to sign the contract.

    The Department of Public Works is expected to sign and return the contract within 10 business days.

    – We absolutely will not do that, it goes against everything we stand for. They should withdraw these oddities,” says Jan Valeskog.

    It is the embassy that benefits from the City of Stockholm, not the other way around, he believes.

    – If the US terminates its relationship with the City Planning Office, the embassy will find it difficult to obtain building permits if they want to rebuild, for example. “That’s their headache, not ours,” says Valeskog.

    According to the National Board of Housing, Building Permits are required for new construction, extensions and certain changes to the external appearance of buildings.
    The US embassy at Gärdet in Stockholm. Photo: Fredrik Sandberg/TT

    DN has previously reported that the USA has demanded the same of Swedish companies that supply goods and services. At the time, the embassy replied in an email to DN that “U.S. missions are reviewing contracts and grants to ensure they comply with the White House’s latest executive order”.

    Shortly after Trump was sworn in as president in January, he signed an executive order to scrap government-funded programs aimed at promoting inclusion, equality and diversity in the workplace.

    Translated with DeepL.com (free version)

    Edit: formatting

  11. Trump is bizarre and we need to impeach him and remove him from office.

  12. Rename the three roads surrounding the embassy diversity, equality & Inclusion so it’s on their address and all correspondence from them to the us gets caught in some poorly written DEI filters.

  13. I heard this started when the US ambassador to Sweden was not able to assemble an IKEA side table and got real big mad.

  14. I am surprised they haven’t renamed it to US embarassy yet.

  15. Yeah, that’s not going to fly in Sweden. Go to r/Sverige and see what people are saying.

  16. If the US embassy does not want to purchase goods or services, they can just stop doing that without informing the Swedish city planning office of the reason.

  17. I suggest the city responds with a list of all the services that they can’t guarantee aren’t handled by “DEI” staff.

    Water, electricity, garbage collection, and so on…

  18. Are MAGAs just jealous of all first world countries, states, and counties?

  19. They did the same in Norway where they asked the energy and utility company to pledge no DEI hiring was happening or they would not buy electricity from them. What morons

  20. Interesting what they will do if for example companies providing water and electricity in Stockholm will refuse to sign that type of contract.

  21. They tried the same thing in Norway, Oslo, last week. No one is going to sign that. If they disapprove they can pack up and go home.

  22. Is there any US representative anywhere with enough balls and brain to not endorse and relay this kind of simpleton tantrum?

  23. I believe these ‘demands’ all around Europe coming from American embassies and whatnot are coming directly from Russia and are designed to troll us.

    Just ignore. Never feed the troll.

  25. They can stop purchasing water and electricity from Swedish companies too.

  28. What are they going to do? Airlift everything and pay tariffs instead of sourcing locally?

  29. Kick them out then. They don’t get to dictate what foreign cities and countries do.

  30. I don’t care about DEI and wokism, but what I care even less about is foreign banana republics trying to dictate law in one of the most civilised countries in the world. Who do they think they are?!

  31. The trump admin continues to embarrass us citizens on a daily basis.

  32. Or what? They’ll stop buying sanitation services?

    Water and electricity?

  33. The opposite of Diveristy and Inclusion is Segregation.

    Ask them why they want to bring back Segregation.

  34. Or what? What possible consequences does non compliance bring?

    Are they going to stop using the city’s services?

    ????

  35. Fine. We won’t sign anything like that. So if they want to, they can build an outdoor crap house and start hauling water in buckets from the lake.

    Idiots from an idiot country.

  36. Im sure the swedish govt would be upset if the U.S. embassy closed and went home. s/

    The trumpleforeskin regime is trying to force his mentally insane garbage on the world. The world laughs at his foolishness.

  37. I don’t want only our country to be a shithole, we want the entire world to be a shithole just like us.

  41. I think it’s important to understand that they are not talking to us. They are making statements to appease their own administration and it’s narrative. No reaction will change their course, there is nothing Europeans can do to get any conclusion on these silly verbal aggressions and they will not stop with this nonsense because we show outrage.

    Ignore them, don’t react, obviously never give in and do not give them any media coverage.

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