En sanoo mitään A2 Pakolais-illan ohjelmasta, koska se oli pettymys minulle. Mielestäni siinä vahvistettiin enemmän kun haastettiin suomalaisten ennakkoluuloja pakolaisiin ja maahanmuuttajiin.
Yksi asia joka pisti silmään oli ettei ohjelman vieraat, kuten kokoomuslainen kansanedustaja Susanna Koski sekä pappi Marjaana Toiviainen, tienneet ero sanasta kotoutumisesta ja kotiutumisesta.
Kotoutuminen on aika uusi sanaa suomen kielessä ja se tarkoitta prosessi jolloin maahanmuuttajia sopeutuu meidän yhteiskuntaan. Kotiutuminen on aivan eri asia eikä sillä pitäisi olla mitä tekemiseen ihmisten sopeutuminen Suomeen.
Toinen vieras joka ei tiennyt mitä on kotoutuminen ja kotiutuminen oli pappi Marjaana Toiviainen.
As the Perussuomalaiset (PS)* starts to implode with third vice president Sebastian Tynkkynen demands that the populist anti-immigration party exits government, its self-destruction will not be caused by outside factors but from within.
One guiding star of the PS is not only its inexperience but outright ignorance that shows us the ugly face of its racism.
Teuvo Hakkarainen, a PS lawmaker, said something incredible over the weekend as did Social and Health Minister Hanna Mäntylä of the same party. One said it outright while the other one said it indirectly.
Hakkarainen was quoted as saying in Oulu-based Kalevathat international agreements and the Constitution hinder the PS from realizing its policies.
Mäntylä, who has a fixed obsession against asylum seekers, proposed again that asylum seekers should be treated unequally before the law and should not have equal access to the law and social welfare.
Yes, you read right: Hakkarainen states that we should change the constitution and shelve international agreements to we can socially exclude and treat migrants as third-class citizens in Finland.
Migrant Tales insight: One of the worst things that one can do is to be intimidated by violence and threats. Such threats have become, unfortunately, a too often occurrence in Finland. Here is a rebuttal by M. Blanc. I raise my hate to him for having the courage and strength to write despite the flack he’s got.
Read M. Blanc’s first opinion piece here.
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M. Blanc*
I wrote an piece about my experiences and stated the reasons why I have decided to leave Finland and how foreigners are treated by great number of Finns. I kept close track of how people reacted to what I wrote on Facebook and all of a sudden hundreds of foreigners were encouraged and agreed with my points and thanking me for speaking out. Of course there were those who started saying that I am the problem and I am lying to manipulate others. Some guy even compared me with Hitler!
I got a lot of messages from people that had been through the same things as I and they thanked me for sharing my experience. Last week, however, I started to get a lot of bullying and hate messages and they are still following me even though I have left Finland for good…
Now I realized why hardly any foreigner is speaking out in public because they are afraid and get so much pressure! I have received a lot of scary messages from Finns including one with a life threatening statement. I deleted all the messages from the people harassing me and soon will delete my account but I have a few screenshots in case I take legal action below.
I just don’t know what has happened to some people… Sometimes I feel life is worthless and there is no more reason to live when people are so ugly to each other like now… At least I wish I had never existed in this world for these people…
Standing together with four other Nordic prime ministers, Juha Sipilä states that Finland isn’t a racist country, according to YLE in English. I’m a bit baffled by Sipilä’s statement. What does Finland “not being a racist country” actually mean?
Is he saying that racism doesn’t exist? Does his claim mean that it’s under control? Does it mean that we have racism and the prime minister is ashamed by it?
Or is it denial that such a social ill is one of the biggest challenges we have as our society becomes ever-culturally diverse?
We don’t know because the statement doesn’t give us too many clues.
Sipilä also claimed at the press conference that all of the Nordic countries “are international, open and tolerant.”
Taking into account recent election results in Denmark and Finland, one could debate the prime minister’s claim.
The only prime minister at the press conference that could be considered “international, open and tolerant” is Stefan Lofven of Sweden. Norway, Denmark and Finland all have populist and anti-cultural diversity parties that could be described as “xenophobic, closed and intolerant.”
Who are they? The Perussuomalaiset (PS)* of Finland, the Danish People’s Party and the Progress Party of Norway.
All three of these parties base their political support on anti-cultural diversity sentiment, excluding and victimizing migrants and minorities and encouraging that they be kept on short leashes.
Why have we seen in recent years the rise of populist parties in the Nordic region that are xenophobic and hostile to cultural diversity if we “are open, international and tolerant?”
Supremacy on elokuva, joka perustuu tositapahtumiin. Se kertoo äärioikeisto väkivallasta. Päähenkilö Garrett Tully on väkivaltarikollinen, joka vankilassa radikalisoituu uusnatsiyhteisön aktiiviseksi jäseneksi. Arjalainen Veljeskunta on hänelle yhteisö, jossa hän palvelee suurempaa tarkoitusta. Sen parissa hän on jotain. Sitä ennen hän oli vain oman kokemuksena mukaan piece of shit.
15 vuotta vankilassa ei tehnyt yhteiskuntakelpoiseksi. Päin vastoin. Yksi päivä vapaudessa vei takaisin vankilaan odottamaan kuolemantuomion täytäntöönpanoa. Äärioikeistolainen ideologia vei koko nuoren miehen menessään.
Hän eli ja hengitti vihasta. Hänen toisen käden sormiinsa oli tatuoitu kirjaimet H-A-T-E. Kasvoihin ja rintaan oli tatuoitu hakaristejä sekä muita natsisymboleja. Ideologinen harha omasta ylemmyydestä on vahva ja aivan yhtä ristiriitainen kuin sen päätään nostanut suomalainen versio.
Tullyn taustasta elokuvassa ei kerrota. Sen sijaan se raottaa rasismin verhoa puistattavan todentuntuisesti. Rasismi kohdistuu tuntemattomiin ihmisiin täysin odottamatta voimalla, josta toisinaan aina joku maksaa hengellään vain siksi, että joku kokee olevansa ylempäni ja arvokkaampi ihonvärin, uskonnon, sukupuolen tai jonkun muun vuoksi.
Elokuvassa kidnapatun mustan perheen isä jo vanhus, puhuu Tullylle tämän pitäessä pistoolin piippua vanhuksen otsalla. Puhe avaa rasistien sielunmaisemaa tavalla, joka salpaa hengen.
En anele henkeni edestä.
En anele henkeni edestä.
Mitä nyt.
Ihonvärini?
Jos on kyse siitä
tappamisemme ei pelasta sinua.
Entä jos se on jotain sisimmässäsi?
Sisälläsi on tuska,
jota vastaan ponnistelet.
Jos niin on,
ehkä käymme samaa taistelua.
Olemme samassa veneessä.
Tully: Menetin kaiken, enkä palaa sinne.
Et ole menettänyt kaikkea.
Et ole menettänyt kaikkea.
Sinua pelottaa.
Kyllä, sinua pelottaa.
Sinua pelottaa valinta,
joka sinua odottaa.
Sinä voit valita niin,
että lasket aseesi juuri nyt.
Kävelemme täältä ulos.
Voit tehdä sen valinnan.
Tully: Tämä on minun valintani (paljastaen natsitatuointinsa)
Ja sinä pysyt vitun nekruna.
Niin. Neekerinä. Nekruna.
Aina on kyse siitä laiskasta, oppimattomasta
nekrusta, joka vie muilta kaiken.
Siitä nekrusta.
Aina hän syyttää olosuhteita ja käyttää
niitä tekosyynä saadakseen sen,
minkä hän luulee ansainneensa.
Se nekru ei mieti tulevaisuutta,
huomista eikä tätä päivää.
Hän miettii sitä, että hän saisi juonitella,
kähmiä …. se nekru.
Se nekru. Tässä huoneessa on vain
yksi nekru.
Tässä talossa. Se nekru olet sinä.
Se nekru olet sinä.
Se nekru olet sinä, Tully.
Se nekru olet sinä.
Tilanne laukeaa. Tämä elokuva on rasismin pitkä oppimäärä.
In journalism it works in the following manner: Silence is what you don’t report and intentionally leave out in the story. That is a policy decision, or an editorial line.
As more asylum seekers come to Finland I try to remember what the media reported about the arrival of Somalis to Finland in the early 1990s. The reporting was disgraceful, unprofessional and outright racist.
No doubt about that.
The first time I ever got death threats in my life was in Finland, when I wrote about for Apu magazine a big story on a refugee center in Mikkeli.
When I reported this matter to the police in Helsinki, the matter that surprised me was how he played down what happened. He just wasn’t interested, He didn’t take what happened to me seriously.
This 1994 billboard by tabloid Ilta-Sanomat reads: “Somalis got asylum by swindled the authorities.” Source: Migration Institute.
While the national media doesn’t show its racism like the billboard above, it’s reporting is below standard it is still “white” and opinionated. Too often it is a mouthpiece for racist comments by politicians and rarely does it ever challenge them.
The most recent example of the above was YLE’s 8:30pm news Saturday. For some odd reason YLE reports the news about the demonstrations for and against asylum seekers as two extremes.
If we put that type of reporting into context and applied it to Britain you’d probably see the former Islamophobic English Defense League at one end and anarchists at the other.
In Finland the media incorrectly reports that those who are in favor or against asylum seekers are two extremes.
There are a number of demonstrations planned today demanding that Finland shut its border to asylum seekers. What may surprise some is that the Perussuomalaiset (PS)*, a party sharing power in government, is organizing some of these demonstrations like the one in Tornio, a town located next to the Swedish border, according to tabloid Iltalehti.
Racists have done wonders for Finland’s image abroad and these people in Tornio will reinforce that image.
As long a politicians continue to give wishy-washy statements on racism and as long as the media parrots this type of narrative the international media is our last hope. They will name and shame us into action.
Demonstrations are becoming quite common in Finland due to the government’s wishy-washy stand on asylum seekers and racism.
If we are concerned about our international image we should take steps to challenge racism and outbursts of bigotry in this country thanks to parties like the PS.
What do you do if you are an asylum seeker that got a residence permit to stay in Finland and went to a Finnish-language course for a whole year? Everything is fine until you meet your first Finnish-language teacher who has no respect, never mind cultural sensitivity, for the your background and needs.
“She was not only a bad teacher but cruel,” said the Somali woman, who spoke on condition of anonymity. “She made me cry all the time. When I asked help from her she’d say that I had to pay more attention to her in class. I have never met such a bad teacher in Finland.”
Most of the students in the class were Muslims and as everyone knows some of them pray five times a day.
“The teacher wouldn’t allow us to step out of class to pray for five minutes,” she continues. “She said that if I stepped out to pray I’d be marked as absent from the class.”
Can you believe this type of reasoning from a Perussuomalaiset (PS)* councilman from Sysmä, Ville Moisanen, who posted and removed two pictures on Facebook that insulted Jews, millions of victims of the Holocaust and a black woman posing with members of the Ku Klux Klan.
Are you ready for his explanation? Grab on to something because you may fall flat on your backs.
Moisanen writes:
“Let’s make one matter clear. I posted a picture and other published stuff as a PRIVATE PERSON, not as a member of A PARTY, and didn’t represented anyone else. It’s totally in vain to bring in the PARTY in this matter. It’s totally a joke to mix the party in this. This can be shared. “
Hold your horses Ville Moianen. You showed pictures of Hilter about gasing Jews and Ku Klux Members about to lynch a black person…
If this is your “personal opinion” and “private stuff” it’s clear that you haven’t understood the point: What you did is utterly racist and sick irrespective if you did it as a private person or representing a party like the PS.
The PS councilman from Sysmä now states that what he published was his private opinion and had nothing to do with the party he belongs to.
