The Minister for Equality: Right to throw Brandão Jönsson out of the studio

Published 9 October 2024 at 16.23

Foreign. Equality Minister Paulina Brandberg (L) believes that it was right to reject the journalist Henrik Brandão Jönsson from the radio studio after he expressed support for sex purchases during a broadcast of “Söndag i P4”.

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“If you are silent, you take a stand for the normalization of this, if you speak out, you instead stand up for all those who are exploited in the sex industry. We need more people, like Abadi (the host of the radio show), to choose the latter option,” writes Paulina Brandberg in a debate article in Expressen. public service.

“However, this should not be confused with the right to be protected from strong backlash if you express them,” she writes.

In the controversial radio show, where the listener Julia asked for advice regarding her sex life, Henrik Brandão Jönsson suggested that her partner try prostitution.

– Maybe he should go to Copenhagen and pay for sex, he said.

This led to strong reactions from both presenter Farah Abadi and panelist Jennie Walldén. The former exclaimed “what the hell are you saying”, and Brandão Jönsson was kicked out of the studio.

Equality Minister Paulina Brandberg (L) was one of the left-wing profiles who praised P4 on social media for kicking Jönsson out of the studio .

All credit to Farah Abadi who marks so clearly against this. 👏 https://t.co/qbtXCC8M9M

— Paulina Brandberg (@Pau_Brandberg) October 6, 2024