Our current conservative government has appointed an inquiry to propose a ban on marriage between cousins. The aim is to create a regulation that counteracts oppression of honor and marriages entered into as a result of pressure or other influence.
Aside from the social problems of oppression and clan building that cousin marriage can and often does, there is one more factor to consider, the medical one. Marriage between cousins can and does cause severe genetic complications in children.
A former minister in the previous social democratic government wrote on X, former Twitter, that this is quote "a genuine bullshit question" unquote.
A serious and well-read journalist whose father was born in Morocco and mother in Sweden makes a post in the former minister's thread on X with a reference to a British journalist with Pakistani roots whose family has suffered from genetic complications and her documentary on the BBC.
The former minister who in a previous thread about nuclear power plants at X wrongly claimed that the drama series Chernobyl would be a documentary is now making the same wrong claim again. Regarding the journalist's reference to the documentary regarding cousin marriage, she replies quote "when I myself referred to the Netflix documentary..." unquote.
This woman who has been a minister 4 times under 2 social democratic governments has still not understood the difference between a drama series and a documentary.
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