Here’s a recording of an enraged Finnish male who goes on a racist rant against an Estonian taxi driver in Finland.* The video clip has received wide coverage in Estonia. Here are some disgraceful excerpts: You went to the taxi driver course and if you can’t drive then go to the other side of…
Month: December 2014
Defining Swedish white privilege #1: Case Björn Söder
Sensible people in the Nordic region and elsewhere understand the threat of far right nativist rhetoric through mouthpiece parties like the Sweden Democrats, Danish People’s Party, Progress Party of Norway and Finland’s Perussuomalaiset (PS)* that parrot their “us” and “them” racism. Sweden Democrat party secretary Björn Söder offers us a good example of how Swedish…
Thomas Elfgren: Kansallissosialismi ei tule hakaristien muodossa
Thomas Elfgren* Ruotsidemokraattien Björn Söder sanoo sen mitä akkujaan lataamassa olleelta puheenjohtaja Jimmy Åkessonilta jäi vaalitaistossa ääneen sanomatta. Hänen mukaan esimerkiksi saamelaiset ovat kyllä Ruotsin kansalaisia, mutteivät kuulu Ruotsin kansaan. Kuten eivät hänen mukaansa kuulu myöskään Tornionjokilaakson meänkieliset asukkaat. Asiapitoisuudessaan tässä ole mitään uutta. Aärioikeistolainen maahanmuuttokrittisyys on salonkikelpoinen synonyymi rotuerottelulle. Rotuerottelijoita ja rasisteja on aina…
Sweden Democrats openly attack cultural diversity – will the PS of Finland follow their example?
In a clear attempt to cash in on the anti-immigration sentiment, Sweden Democrat party secretary Björn Söder said that minorities like the Saami could never be Swedes and was willing to pay immigrants to leave the country, reports The Local. The mere suggestion that Sweden is only a country of white Swedes reveals the racist…
What kind of a culturally diverse country will Finland become in 2024?
Here’s a question that has been going around in my head for the last few days: Is the intolerance we’re witnessing today in Finland a passing matter? How much good will is there in our society to apply our Nordic welfare state values to others? Finland isn’t a country of immigrants but a country of emigrants….
The CIA + torture = death of our values
An interesting spin that the media has echoed about the CIA’s torture program on Tuesday is that all these terrible things happened recently. They neither happened recently nor involved “some folks” as President Barack Obama pointed out, but have been going on for decades. Wake up USAmerica. The Guardian writes: There are stories in the CIA…
Jallow Momodou: Invisible ‘visible’ minority on the European political agenda
Jallow Momodou* ‘Numbers count’ is a statement we often hear, especially when speaking of democratic weight and power as a means to influence a group’s socio-economic conditions. So far, however, people of African descent and Black European are the most invisible ‘visible’ minority on the European political agenda. This despite the fact that there are…
New World Finn: Bye for now
To part is to die a little to die to what we love .* Edmond Haracourt (1856-1941) The first time I heard the phrase by the French, “to part is to die a little,” was in Finland a long time ago during one of those unforgettable summers, when I used to visit my grandparents in Eastern…
ENAR*: Open letter to Mark Rutte, Prime Minister of The Netherlands , Ivo Opstelten , Ministry for Security and Justice and Fred Teeven , State Secretary for Security and Justice
Brussels, 24 November 2014 Dear Prime Minister, Dear Ministers, We, the undersigned, are writing to express our concern regarding the conduct of Dutch authorities and law enforcement officials on the day of the ‘arrival’ of Saint Nicholas in Gouda, the Netherlands on 15 November 2014. First hand evidences show clear violations of the freedom of…
Hate crimes in 2013 are up by 13.9% in Finland but who cares?
Suspected hate crimes in 2013 rose by 13.9% to 833 cases compared with 732 in the previous year, according to the Police College of Finland. While one suspected hate crime is too many, how should we interpret these figures? What do they reflect? Do they reveal that there are high or low hate crime levels…