Ilmestykö rasismia suomalaisissa mediassa? Nämä Ilta-Sanomien ja Iltalehden lööpit* 1990-luvulta todistavat kuinka iltapäivälehdet levittivät ja vahvistivat rasismia Suomessa.
Olisiko anteeksipyyntö paikalla?
Vaikka hiljaisuus saattaa vastata kysymykseen, uskon, että jonain päivänä iltapäivälehdet pyytävät anteeksi kaikkea sitä mitä ovat kirjoittaneet maahanmuuttajista ja vähemmistöistä.
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The greatest deterrent in foiling the attempts of the Perussuomalaiset (PS)* party’s political aims is our fervent opposition to such plans.
SOLUTIONS
What does the latter imply?
It means: voting, getting active in politics, writing, talking, debating, reciting poetry, demonstrating, going on hunger strike, getting constantly informed, busting fake news – living as if today were the last day before Finland is sucked in to bizarro’s spell.
HISTORY
The PS under Jussi Halla-aho has turned into a far-right party that spreads hatred of migrants and polarizes society. In many respects, it is not only a racist party but one fed by resentment.
Asseri Kinnunen is a shameless politician who destroyed the PS’ youth branch by giving too many ethnonationalists and fascists a political home.
PLAYING HARD BALL
In the message below, Kinnunen, who has been pictured in fascist attire from the 1930s, states: “HEY! Do you want to oust [Prime Minister Sanna] Marin’s government? Do you want @Halla_aho as prime minister? Join and help us. We need you! The video will tell you why you should become a candidate [for city council].”
These hopes by the PS as well as other campaign promises that will be broken after election day.
Finland will hold municipal elections on April 18, 2021.
Just like the PS has become bolder with its racism, it has simultaneously shown its true far-right and white supremacist colors.
Let’s give the PS and other likeminded parties hell!
TOPLINE
The Perussuomalaiset (PS)* is a radical-right party with fringe elements. The pet topic that helps them cash in on voters is migration and migrants with the help of two main pieces of fake news.
FACTS AND QUESTION MARKS
It is odd, if not irresponsible, that the media does not ask the PS to specify so their deceptions would be exposed.
Have you noticed how the PS always speak of “migrants” as one group but don’t usually specify which migrant groups?
Who are these “migrants” that the PS constantly labels?
If we study their use of code words, migrant means Muslims and asylum seekers, who are people of color.
FAKE NEWS #1: According to the Finnish Immigration Service (Migri), those that belong in the latter groups accounted in 2019 for about 7.8% of all resident permits. If we look at a longer period, the percentage is about 12%.
FAKE NEWS #2: If the PS had its way, they would instill fear and hand deportations right and left to migrants. They would declare an all-out war on Muslims and make their lives more unbearable with the aim of destroying their identity.
With municipal elections nearing on April 18, it’s interesting to note how the Perussuoalaiset (PS) are sowing division. Like in previous elections, they have always received a boost by some sexual assault crimes caused by asylum seekers and people of color.
Their campaign is full of bravado mixed with impossible campaign promises.
Their pet topic and targets are (surprise-surprise) migrants. Their campaign promises to oppress and disenfranchise migrants. Fortunately, these proposals by the PS are unconstitutional and would never see the light.
People in Finland, irrespective of their background and legal status, are equal before the law and have a right to social welfare.
Apart from misleading and lying to their voters with populist malarkey, PS leader Jussi Halla-aho’s media statements make him look more like a loser like Donald Trump.
He said in Iltalehti that he wanted to put an end to the present government of Prime Minister Sanna Marin.
“We want decision-makers in Finland to put Finland and Finns first. For this reason, we don’t want the left-green government to continue. The best and only way to end to the government is to vote for the Perusuomalaiset. The government will fall when the Center Party leaves the coalition,” he was quoted as saying.
Below is an excerpt of the type of immigration policy Halla-aho and his followers would like to enforce in their dreams.
10. “The pampering of migrants must end. Municipalities must stop giving services to illegal migrants, end supporting migrants’ language and culture, and should not use “affirmative action” [to employ] at the cost of [white] Finns. As a substitute to poor integration programs, poorly integrated migrants should be repatriated.”
In reading the program of the PS, one wonders why there is so much discord and hatred towards migrants. Their loathing is not geared at white EU citizens but against Muslims, people of color, and other visible minorities.
Halla-aho’s wet political dream is for the Center Party to leave the government after suffering an election defeat in the municipal elections. This would provoke new elections that would turn Halla-aho into the next prime minister.
I can also write fairy tales but not as well as Halla-aho and his cronies.
Toimittaja Lauri Nurmen tekemä Jussi Halla-ahon epävirallinen elämäkerta -teos auttaa syvemmin ymmärtämään perussuomalaisten puheenjohtajan poliittisia päämääriä.
Tuskinpa kovin moni edes tietää, kuinka tiiviit kytkökset Jussi Halla-aholla on äärioikeistolaisena ja jopa fasistisena pidettyyn Suomen Sisuun. Aluksi keskustelu- ja kirjallisuuspiirinä toimineessa Suomen Sisun perustajien Thule-ryhmässä luettiin monia Natsi-Saksan ja äärioikeistolaisten kuuluvia teoksia.
Lukemistoon kuuluu muun muassa ”Ku Klux Klanin entisen suurvisiirin, antisemitistin ja valkoisen ylivallan kannattajan David Duken omaelämäkerrallinen My Awakening” ja ”Hitlerin johtaman kansallissosialistisen puolueen pääideologin Uutta Eurooppaa kohti” teos, kirjoittaa Lauri Nurmi, (Ks. s. 89. Jussi Halla-aho – epävirallinen elämäkerta, Into).
Äärioikeistolaisen lukemiston takia kirjallisuusryhmän Thule-nimi oli tuskin sattumalta sama kuin Saksassa vuonna 1918 perustettu Thule-seura, jonka jäsenistön egoa paisutettiin propagandalla arjalaisen rodun ylivertaisuudesta. Thulelaiset perustivat vuonna 1920 Saksan kansallissosialistisen työväenpuolueen, josta tuli Hitlerin työkalu valtaan.
Lauri Nurmen mukaan Suomen Sisua voikin ”kirjallisiin lähteisiin tukeutuen luonnehtia kansallissosialistiseksi” (s. 101). Suomen Sisun ääriliikemäinen propaganda alkaa herättää huomiota ja se erotetaan Suomalaisuuden Liitosta vuonna 2000 (s. 90–93).
Pian julkisen erottamiskohun jälkeen Jussi Halla-aho alkaa osallistua Suomen Sisun toimintaan. Halla-aho ei ole tällöin enää nuori vaan jo 29-vuotias maisterivaiheen opiskelija, joten kyseessä on tietoisempi yhteiskunnallinen suunnanvalinta kuin teini-ikäisen nuoren kapinoiva etsiminen. Hallo-aho valitaan peräti kahdesti Suomen Sisun hallitukseen (s. 98).
Kansallissosialistien nuorisopropagandaa johtanut Helmut Stellrecht yleni SS-Brigadenführeriksi eli kenraalimajuria vastaavaan arvoon. Hänen vuonna 1938 ilmestyneessä Usko ja teot –teoksessaan ylistetään saksalaisen rodun puhdasta perintöä ja juutalaisten juuriminen ”pois Saksasta on ylin laki.”
Suomen Sisu julkaisee tiivistelmän tästä teoksesta vuonna 2002 ja kirjoittaa verkkosivuillaan olevansa ”iloinen voidessaan tarjota tämän historiallisen harvinaisuuden suomalaisille lukijoille” (ks. s. 101).
Continue reading “Mikael Kallavuo: Mihin kohtiin demokratia–fasismi -akselilla Jussi Halla-ahon näkökulmat sijoittuvat?”MP Riikka Purra is an ethnonationalist with a strong white supremacist ideology of the Perussuoalaiset (PS) party. She is also first vice president of the PS.
One of Purra’s biggest message is how Finland is becoming culturally and ethnically diverse. According to her, this is a threat to the power and privileges that white Finns have.
Her latest tweet below is another shameful example of hers and her party’s far-right views.
Purra tweets: “When will be able to speak about social cohesion? That our values and institutions [lack social cohesion].”
Spreading white privilege and supremacy by politicians like Purra and her party’s radicalism and racism will end badly.
A question for Purra: You are way too late with your ethnonationalist goals and warnings. What are you going to do with us, so-called brown Finland, and people of color? Are you going to kick us out of Finland and send us off in boxcars?”
Since your racist and exclusive views of Finland won’t change anything, you say such foul things because you are a rude opportunist fishing for votes and questionable fame.
When I read the news story that Denmark’s Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen stated that she wants the country to accept zero asylum seekers, I sarcastically thought that one of the EU’s most Islamophobic countries had found a solution to end global inequality and strife.
The Perussuomalaiset (PS), Finland’s close ideological ally of the Danish People’s Party and admirer of Frederiksen’s anti-immigration policies, was overjoyed by the prime minister’s zero-asylum seeker goal.
The PS’ leader, Jussi Halla-aho, and his Islamophobic party has expressed the same plan: end asylum seekers from the Middle East and other developing nations from coming to Finland.
Considering that populists and parties lack imagination and prefer to copy-and-paste toxic ideologies, we only must look at former President Donald Trump’s cruel immigration policy of family separation and denying refugees access to the country. Such policy did not only fail but brought great suffering to its victims.
Fredriksen’s statement and that of other Islamophobic parties and politicians are only meant for populist public consumption. Thus, it is not the policy but a country that policy would turn it into. Sowing hatred, suspicion, and division never end well.
Ignoring the global suffering, we wrought in the first place would let in other toxic ideologies that give rise to countries that base their government’s popularity on hatred. Having our head in our rectum will not improve our eyesight.
The 2019 recipient of the Council Literature Prize, Jonas Eika of Denmark, gave the following speech (see video clip below) about state racism in Denmark and its then-new prime minister Fredriksen.
OK, Eika is a poet and poets usually have noble ideals.
Continue reading “Denmark’s PM Mette Frederiksen on zero asylum seekers and other wishes like our head up our…”TOPLINE
In November, an Iraqi asylum seeker called Ziad* from Jämsänkoski heard the court sentence a man who had threatened him the previous year with a knife and called him a vitun pakolainen (f**king asylum seeker) and vitun ulkomaalainen (f**king foreigner).
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KEY BACKGROUND
One of the most significant matters about the case is that it was not considered a hate crime. Ziad does not have an answer to why the police and court did not see that way.
“Surely I am not happy with the sentence,” said the Iraqi asylum seeker. “If I did the same what the man did to me, I’d be in Baghdad now.”
Ziad said that after the court case he no longer trusts the Finnish justice system, never mind the police. He admits, however, that matters would be different if he were a resident.
Continue reading “27-year-old Iraqi: “An asylum seeker is an animal and becomes a human being in Finland until he gets a residence permit””TOPLINE
The silence emerging from the Perussuomalaiset (PS)* politicians are highly revealing. Their populist autocratic mentor, former President Donald Trump, is history and no longer in power.
KEY FACTS
While only PS MEP Laura Huhtasaari and PS MP Veikko Vallin were some of the very few politicians of the party to comment on the transfer of power, Jussi Halla-aho, Riikka Purra, Ville Tavio, Mauri Peltokangas, Juha Mäenpää, Vilhelm Junnila, and Wille Rydman of the National Coalition Party, as well as Sari Essyah of the Christian Democrats, were silent on Facebook.
Finland’s populist Islamophobic party, the PS, has suffered three blows that threaten to keep its growth in check: Anders Breivik’s terrorist attack in Norway on 22/7, the storming of the Capitol building by Trump supporters, and President Joe Biden’s inauguration as the US’ 46th president.
More PS-Trump buffoonery.
Continue reading “Why are the PS so silent about the US President Joe Biden’s administration?”After four years of chaos and division, an illness that even inflicted the Perussuomalaiset (PS)* and politicians in other parties that sow division heard long-overdue healing words.
Without losing sight of the wars, CIA-inspired coups, and the human destruction brought on by the United States, it took a despot-inspired president like Donald Trump to give US’ exceptionalism a forceful blow.
The division and hatred sowed in the United States have long roots in the country’s history and are also present in Finland as our population becomes more diverse culturally and ethnically.
One party, the PS, has built its politics on sowing ethnic hatred, rage, violence, and bigotry on brown Finns and other people of color. Politicians in the National Coalition Party, Christian Democrats, and others have flirted with such toxic ideas.
President Joe Biden is correct in stating that we must not stand idle or be silent. “Uniting to fight the foes we face: anger, resentment, hatred, extremism, lawlessness, violence, disease, joblessness, and hopelessness. With unity, we can do great things, important things,” he said in his inaugural speech.
Are the same foes that Biden cites the same ones sowing discord in Finland?
I believe so.
A politician who spreads racism lives in constant conflict. How can he or she accept that some people have all the rights and others only on paper?
Twenty-two-year-old Amanda Gorman, the youngest inaugural poet ever, offered us today in Finland and the EU some sobering thoughts in her poem, The Hill We, Climb:”
“And yes, we are far from polished, far from pristine, but that doesn’t mean we are striving to form a union that is perfect. We are striving to forge our union with purpose. To compose a country committed to all cultures, colors, characters, and conditions of man. And so we lift our gazes not to what stands between us, but what stands before us.”