This is a comment.
It is my job to skim Norwegian newspapers, including Dagbladet. But the way they use clickbait means that very few articles are opened. I am therefore grateful to Kjetil Rolness, who on Facebook has made us aware of a comment made by Marie Simonsen.
She has been employed by Dagbladet for a lifetime.
This time, Simonsen has commented on the development of violence in Oslo. Through a specific event.
And that’s why you hardly believe what you read, or that that comment has slipped through the editorial board. Simonsen exposes such a self-centered and elitist attitude that it seems like a caricature.
On her own Facebook page, she begins as follows:
“Every time I saw the headline shot on the open street, I have to admit that I didn’t react. They’re just shooting each other, I thought.
Until my good friend and neighbour, Eirik Mosveen, ended up in the middle of the firing line with his 80-year-old mother. Then I started to notice that it happens more and more often in Oslo.
It is scary.”
And in the article itself, Simonsen comes up with several profound “insights”.
She tells about an American friend who has read newspapers and is worried about the violence in Oslo.
“No, take it easy, they only shoot each other, I assured a few days before she was due to visit,” writes Simonsen about his old self.
“Until a few years ago I kept my word. Criminals were more shady and accurate, and they did the work themselves.”
«[Vi slo] us at ease with the fact that ice-cold 38-year-olds shot a competitor in a deserted road no one had heard of. It was a world that hardly concerned us. But if they are going to start shooting around in the middle of Tøyen Torg on a Saturday night, then that is different. Then violence and crime threaten the everyday lives of ordinary people.”
Because now that Avisa Oslo editor Eirik Mosveen has witnessed it: Then Marie Simonsen (62) also wakes up. Now even she and those she cares about can be affected.
“In the square, several people hung around the pubs, but that didn’t stop a young man from taking out a gun and firing without regard for the people around him.”
Ugh and ugh.
“The dramatic shooting incident in central Oslo, of which Dagbladet has published a video this weekend, happened a stone’s throw from the National Theater in one of the city’s busiest streets. It is careless and out of control at the same time, which is why it makes headlines and gets more attention than if it is shot in the drab towns on the eastern edge on a Tuesday night. As it keeps happening without getting anything other than a notice,” continues Simonsen.
Because when it is shot elsewhere, where Simonsen does not have to travel, then it is fine. Yes, then Dagbladet does not need to write about it as anything other than a notice. It only affects someone else.
Now she blames the criminals, who do not understand their own good. If they had just continued to shoot each other, and do it on the eastern edge, where “someone else lives”, then the newspapers or the police would not care.
Read what she writes about the criminals:
“The last thing they wanted was to run around the center of Oslo with a gun in their inner pocket and put civilians in danger. It’s smart from a business perspective. As soon as shots are fired at Aker Brygge in broad daylight, all hell breaks loose. The flood light is turned on. The press digs into gangs and networks, politicians talk about “Swedish conditions” and fuss about more resources for the police. The whole social contract is about ordinary citizens being able to move safely around the city without risking ending up in a shootout in the open street.”
Nor does Simonsen trust that the criminals are accurate enough to shoot down in the center of Oslo without harming white women like herself. And this is not good for the police, is Simonsen’s unique insight:
“It’s unfortunate for the turnout in so many ways. First and foremost because shooting at people creates fear and horror, and then because people ask why it happens. How is it that minors are flying around with firearms? Are they trained to shoot in crowds? Are they accurate enough when you meet them on the subway?”
Just so it’s said: I’m not making up these quotes from Simonsen. She actually wrote it. In all its foolishness about lack of self-awareness or understanding of how it will be interpreted by “ordinary people”.
Why can’t only the criminals stay away? Hmm. Simonsen begins to sense that something is not as she thought:
“This is quite basic. Not that I think criminals are geniuses, but they’re not stupid either. They are concerned with their framework conditions like all other businesses in society. That is why the development is frightening. It shows that criminals have little respect for the police, or fear the consequences of serious offences.”
To have. The criminals have no respect for the police. A police force that Simonsen has accused for years of racism and ethnic profiling. Now these criminals have grown so strong that they have also made their way down to the finer areas where Simonsen and Mosveen stay.
And then both the newspapers must write about it and the police must act. Unfortunately.
As Rolness writes about Simonsen:
“Us and them. But she has caught on to the steadily increasing gang crime among “them”. Without writing anything in particular about it. Instead, she has spent a good deal of energy over many years ridiculing, defining, right-wing or smearing those who have warned against the development, such as Jan Bøhler and Hege Storhaug.”
With this comment in Dagbladet, Marie Simonsen has revealed an arrogance and even a racism in the way she rises above everything that happens in parts of the city where mostly only immigrants live, which is one of the most outlandish and detached things I have read.
Even from Marie Simonsen.
That that woman is paid by Dagbladet to comment on anything says a lot about the Norwegian media.
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