An ignoble turn for the organization that presumes to lecture the world via the Nobel prize.
A man with close links to the Swedish Academy – which hands out the Nobel Literature Prize – has been banned from the awards ceremony after sexual assault accusations.
Eighteen women accused the man – a well-known figure on Stockholm's cultural scene – of sexual assault and harassment, detailing the allegations in an article by the Dagens Nyheter (DN) daily this week.
Swedish author Gabriella Håkansson told the newspaper he touched her inappropriately at a party in 2007, in front of her boyfriend. "He didn't say many words before he grabbed me between my legs, and did a pussy grab. It was like he was digging. Nothing motivated the incident, and there had been no flirtation or touch. I just found a hand up my crotch," she told DN. She slapped him in the face and he then left the room.
Several other women describe similar incidents (with accusations dating from 1996 to 2017), with one telling DN one of the incidents took place at the Nobel Prize banquet, the royal party to celebrate the Nobel laureates.
Considering the caliber of some of the winners, this shouldn't be too surprising. But this has been going on for two decades. And only now has the Swedish Academy acted. The preening elites who presume to lecture us are utterly corrupt in every area.
And this should come as no surprise.
Some of the incidents were witnessed by other people, and some allegedly took place in apartments owned by the Swedish Academy in Paris and Stockholm's Old Town.
And yet no actions were taken until now.
So will Obama return his Nobel prize now? Will any of the other winners who have been lecturing us about "who we are" and how we should behave?