The Perussuomalaiset (PS)* party is waging a hostile Islamophobic campaign to boost their low standings in opinion polls. The party is confident that the job will be done by increasing attacks on the migrant and minority community. That is the reason you hear and read PS politicians bashing migrants to divert attention from their disastrous economic policies.
One of these PS politicians is Wille Rydman whose shameful writing exposes the lie behind the story.
He claims in a column in a community paper, which the mainstream media would most likely never publish, that the far-right Great Replacement Theory is a perfect term to describe what is happening in Finland.
“All this is happening completely openly and largely as a result of political decisions. There is no conspiracy, nor is one needed. The end result is a Finland that is becoming less and less Finnish. A country that is rapidly being populated by people who are anything but Finnish,” he claimed.
Source: Helsingin Uutiset.
So what’s wrong with the statement? For one, he is talking about foreigners taking over Finland and that white Finns will become a minority, a typical Great Replacement Theory conspiracy theory that has led in 2019 to the mass killing of Muslims in Christchurch, New Zealand.
When you read the writings of people like Rydman, they forget to mention that following matters:
– Even if the migrant population grows it is not static. It does not mean that the children and grandchildren will be perfect copies of their parents’ culture. They will be Finns in their own right.
– Considering this fact, it is important that we make our society more inclusive so that people from different cultural, religious and ethnic backgrounds can become a part of society. Parties like the PS are against this.
– Rydman’s argument, that there will be few white Finns in the future, is deceptive. if you have migration it means that the ethnic landscape will change. You cannot have children and claim to be a virgin.
Rtdman’s fake news is understandable taking into account his past racist comments and rocky political history.
