Opinion corridor

rdf:langString Opinion corridor

rdf:langString Alice Teodorescu

rdf:langString Ann-Charlotte Marteus

rdf:langString Malin Ullgren

rdf:langString Per Altenberg

rdf:langString Sweden didn't become like Denmark, thank goodness. Maybe the opinion corridor helped. But the price was too high: widespread self-censorship, a fear to examine reality objectively, a diminished belief in the power of arguments. And as a result a dumbed-down public, moral-panicked politicians and social problems that should have gotten attention and been dealt with a long time ago. It proved to be an expensive corridor.

rdf:langString Contributing to delusions about opinion corridors or "cover-up of truth by the elite" is to actively undermine democracy.

rdf:langString Let's get rid of the opinion corridor and end this whole debate that there are things you can't say in Sweden.

rdf:langString We live in a time where it's considered brave to think freely, despite the fact that it's not forbidden.

rdf:langString Opinion corridor (Swedish: åsiktskorridor, Norwegian: meningskorridor) refers to a sociopolitical phenomenon that has been observed during the beginning of the 21st century in Sweden, and to some extent also in Norway. The expression itself was originally used in 2013 by , professor of political science at the University of Gothenburg, as a metaphor for the limits of what is commonly acceptable to debate. The concept is similar to the Overton window, which assumes a sliding scale of legitimate political conversation, and to Hallin's spheres, which assumes that the press implicitly groups issues into questions of wide consensus, legitimate controversy, and deviance. The Swedish Language Council has included the word åsiktskorridor in its 2014 list of neologisms.