This thread can be titled "Genocide deniers, hold my beer." It's about the @NobelPrize organization telling the survivors of mass atrocities in Bosnia and Kosovo that they have an intolerant view of what happened to them.
I'm not kidding.
The Swedish Academy has sent out three letters in response to protests from Bosnia and Kosovo against the Nobel Prize for Literature going to Peter Handke, who has consistently downplayed Serb massacres in the 1990s. The letters should be displayed in a museum of genocide denial. 
The letters are dated Nov. 15, from Anders Olsson, chair of the Nobel Committee at the Swedish Academy. They use very similar language. They are form letters to the victims of mass violence (one of them is a short version, just a few lines). Here's what they amount to --
Dear Survivors of Genocide,
The violence was tragic but we do not believe that you, the survivors, fully understand what happened. Please be more tolerant of an Austrian writer who says your loved ones were not murdered or provoked their murders.
Sincerely, Swedish Academy
The violence was tragic but we do not believe that you, the survivors, fully understand what happened. Please be more tolerant of an Austrian writer who says your loved ones were not murdered or provoked their murders.
Sincerely, Swedish Academy
The letters have typos. Two of them spell literary as "literay." Yes, it's a very small error, but the Swedish Academy is arguably the most powerful literary institution in the world -- maybe it should double-check its letters, especially how they spell "literary"?
What I'm saying is that this whole thing is shoddy and sordid. The Swedish Academy had a sexual assault scandal that prevented it from giving out a prize last year. This year it has a genocide scandal. Enough. Another institution should decide the Nobel Prize for Literature.
And this year's prize should be revoked.
Here's a story I wrote earlier this week about the @NobelPrize organization joining the machinery of genocide denial. theintercept.com/2019/11/20/pet…
@NobelPrize In PDF format, here are the three Swedish Academy letters to Bosnia and Kosovo, defending the Nobel Prize going to Peter Handke.
Bosnia 1: documentcloud.org/documents/6558…
Bosnia 2: documentcloud.org/documents/6558…
Kosovo 1: documentcloud.org/documents/6558…
Letters combined: documentcloud.org/documents/6558…
Bosnia 1: documentcloud.org/documents/6558…
Bosnia 2: documentcloud.org/documents/6558…
Kosovo 1: documentcloud.org/documents/6558…
Letters combined: documentcloud.org/documents/6558…
