The Panic Surrounding Nick Alinia Reveals Public Service's Big Lie

COLUMN • A little over twenty years ago, I worked as a consultant inside the TV house. Even then, the political bias was impossible to miss. Behind the talk of impartiality, neutrality, and popular anchoring, there was a culture marked by ideological conformity and an almost nurturing view of journalism’s mission. That’s why the reactions to Nick Alinia’s participation in a comedy program—and SVT’s subsequent decision to pull the episode—came as no surprise. The Alinia affair does not reveal that something new has happened within public service; on the contrary, it shows just how little has actually changed.

I had the dubious pleasure of working as a design consultant for SVT just over 20 years ago. I sat with the web editorial office inside the TV building and tried to salvage both an expensive and totally failed attempt by another design firm (Stockholm Design Lab) to create a new direction for SVT’s web presence. I flew in from Copenhagen, where I was living at the time.

Expense mattered little to SVT (after all, it wasn’t their own money), but what was clear even then had more to do with the pathological culture that was in full swing, taking over the institution.

Arrogant female managers everywhere, absolute political hegemony, and a grating contempt for ordinary people that always assumed the state media giant’s chief task was to guide the Swedish public toward the ‘right’ opinions and the ‘right’ “value foundation.”

Public service is perhaps the institution that bears the heaviest responsibility for our country’s impending collapse—both as a Swedish nation and as a welfare state. For decades, it has relentlessly propagated for mass immigration, for Islam, for the madness of the so-called ‘green transition’, for the socialist parties—and against all bourgeois parties in general, and Sweden’s second largest party, the Sweden Democrats, in particular.

Jonas Andersson

The insidious concept of the “value foundation”—already in use to cloak its real purpose, political indoctrination and re-education, wrapped in virtue-signaling fluff.

Alongside the striking incompetence (managers—almost always women—were placed in positions and fields they had no knowledge about), the packaged opinions always contained the same bundle.

Communism, socialism, Green Party, feminism (increasingly radicalized), dreams of power hierarchies, hatred of white men, hatred of nationalism and patriotism, an unwillingness to see anything positive about Sweden—and, of course, even then, fawning over Islamism, Palestine, and boundless mass immigration, preferably from the Middle East and Africa.

Yes, it was more than obvious even then. But since then, the political tilt has spun another two turns and now sits, plainly exposed, for all to see. Still, the Swedish people continue to be keelhauled—and to top it off, the bill is sent to the victims themselves.

Public service is perhaps the institution that bears the heaviest responsibility for our country’s impending collapse—both as a Swedish nation and as a welfare state. For decades, it has relentlessly propagated for mass immigration, for Islam, for the madness of the so-called ‘green transition’, for the socialist parties—and against all bourgeois parties in general, and Sweden’s second largest party, the Sweden Democrats, in particular.

In its content in recent years, we see again and again clear political stances and figures openly declaring hatred for Jews, contempt for Sweden, and love for Islam. And no political figure in the history of Swedish Public Service, I dare say, has been so openly and utterly loathed as America’s conservative president Donald Trump.

When Alinia Pulled Back the Curtain

And no matter how SVT, SR, and UR try to mask this political influence with humbug concepts, identitarian jargon, and postmodernist nonsense, reality has finally caught up. The lie has been pushed so far that it can no longer be maintained. And it was Nick Alinia who, perhaps more than anyone, has now pulled back the curtain.

Nick Alinia openly debating at Stockholm University. Photo: Facsimile Facebook

The background to the latest controversy is that SVT’s comedy program Immigrants for Swedes (IFS) recorded an episode featuring commentator Nick Alinia as a panel participant.

SVT is neither neutral nor politically ‘unaffiliated’—quite the opposite. And their attempt to use Alinia as an alibi for this supposed neutrality was quickly shot down by ‘friendly fire’, that is, by all the left-wing extremists who have long regarded SVT as their own headquarters.

Jonas Andersson

Once the news became known, an internal and external outcry broke out. Several left-wing profiles withdrew from the program in protest, and SVT’s management ultimately chose to pull the already recorded episode.

Thus, participation in a comedy program was turned into a fundamental battle over freedom of expression, diversity of opinion, and which voices are in practice considered acceptable on public service.

SVT is neither neutral nor politically ‘unaffiliated’—quite the opposite. And their attempt to use Alinia as an alibi for this supposed neutrality was quickly shot down by ‘friendly fire’, that is, by all the left-wing extremists who have long regarded SVT as their own headquarters.

Alinia must go! Alinia ‘threatens’ people. Alinia is a ‘right-wing extremist’!

The same grotesque fabrications that have been used for decades against anyone refusing to buy into socialist values and the dogmas of new madness and woke ideology. Against all seeking dialogue. Because from the left’s and SVT’s perspective, dialogue is always harmful if it is not rigged to favor the left.

The Panic Revealed Everything

The most remarkable thing about this both predictable and laughable farce is how so-called dissidents and false-flag journalists were now forced to reveal their true colors.

What scares SVT most about Nick Alinia is not any alleged right-wing extremism—there is none—but his common sense, his fearlessness, and his refusal to fall in line. That is much harder to handle than the caricatures they usually paint up.

Jonas Andersson

I smirk when I see Lennart Ekdal in TV4 News’s left-leaning panel (can they stay upright, or will the whole group soon fall left out of frame?), affirming that Alinia has ‘threatened’ people, and when asked where this is supposed to have happened, he answers, ‘I’ve read it.’

This is a “journalist” the public is expected to respect? Ekdal, maybe it’s time to call it quits?

Lennart Ekdal and Ivar Arpi. Photo: Bengt Oberger. CC BY-SA 4.0 and Unknown CC BY 3.0

And Ivar Arpi, who has carefully cultivated the image of himself as a system-critical right-wing voice, but whom many instead see as embodying the limit of criticism the establishment is comfortable with.

Yes, even he joins the left’s chorus against Alinia—without justification, without credibility, and without shame. His only asset, as I see it, is that there are still people who mistake his role for independent thinking on the right.

When I left the TV building those twenty-some years ago, I probably thought reality would catch up sooner or later. That eventually, people would see through the self-satisfied blend of arrogance, contempt, and political re-education that already characterized the operation.

It took longer than I thought. But even the most well-funded illusion has an expiration date.

What scares SVT most about Nick Alinia is not any alleged right-wing extremism—there is none—but his common sense, his fearlessness, and his refusal to fall in line. That is much harder to handle than the caricatures they usually paint up.

For while Alinia stands firmly on the ground, the ever more radicalized left-wing extremism that has shaped public service continues to spread through the corridors and along the walls of the TV building.