Mats Persson could be the perfect weapon against the criminal gang, writes Lisa Magnusson
Integration Minister Mats Persson (L) has committed a debate article (Aftonbladet 23/2). Or what to call his indignant cabin morality now? He aims at the criminal gang – but not with heavy suggestions on how to stop their business. No, it is the music that belongs to the lifestyle he wants. Gangsterrappen.
He obviously does not want to ban the genre, he hurries to say, and devotes the rest of the text to explaining why it should in practice still be banned. It is the « most socially dangerous subculture in modern times ». Nevertheless, the cultural sphere helps these artists to build their « brands », he says. Terrible!
The one who claims to be Just should acquire constructive culture made by nice people, of course, immediately gets lost in a maze without end. Just take the canon of large classic works that Mats Persson's own government wants to establish. Would it be metoad and can be cell directly?
Evert Taube sang freezing about joy girls. August Strindberg had an unpleasant way. Certainly you can find shit on Selma Lagerlöf even if you make an effort, and the internet is full of people who make an effort.
But worth noting In this context, above all, how little Mats Persson seems to understand by the phenomenon of Gangsterrap, which has not grown big because it has become part of the establishment but – on the contrary – because it is dangerous, forbidden, all that has always practiced a difficult attraction on young people.
An upset politician who calls the gangster stairs « society's foremost enemies » and requires to « take away » from them – it is in fact the best advertising they can get.
If he wants the gangster stairs to die, he just needs to embrace it.
I have thought myself That the adult world must be better at revealing gangster life for the big fat lie it is. That behind the romance of fraternity, status and an exciting life in luxury, human brokenness, psychopathy, constant fear and betrayal, years in prison and too early death are hidden.
But Mats Persson's debate article has made me realize that we already have the perfect weapon in front of the nose. If he wants the gangster stairs to die, he just needs to embrace it. Hug it to death. Put on the cap back and fram, speak wide and wide about their darling artists, maybe perform stiff little break dance numbers in front of the TV cameras. Nothing would be more devastating. The same can also do the same as other adults, not least parents.
Soon, Gangsterrap will be considered the thinnest thing there is: Garga culture for old people. And that is when it finally dies, naturally and completely by itself.
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