Do we need to know the Perussuomalaiset (PS)* MP’s track record and what he has said about asylum seekers, Muslims, people of color, and other minorities in the past? His tirade against asylum seekers was so racist that the Left Alliance bloc threatened to leave the meeting if Vallin didn’t stop talking.
Vallin, an avid Donald Trump follower who boasts about how little taxes he pays in Finland because his money is in Estonia, likes to also take pictures of day-care children and women in Muslim attire and publish them without permission on social media.
Kun Sanna Marin vuosi sitten pääsi Vogueen ja vieläpä kansikuvaan, persunaisten närkästys oli valtaisa. Ei tietenkään siksi, että suomalaispäättäjä, nainen ja pääministeri huomioitiin tunnetussa mediassa. Ei tietenkään, persunaisethan ovat kaikkien naisten puolesta ja haluavat tukea myös naispääministeriä, vaikka hän olisikin kommunisti. Mutta SE PUKEUTUMINEN! Sannalla ei ollut takin alla mitään, EI EDES RINTALIIVEJÄ JA MAHTOIKO OLLA RINTOJAKAAN!
Laura Huhtasaari, harras uskovainen, närkästyi eniten suomalaisrintojen puolesta ja organisoi pikaisesti kampanjan, jossa persunaiset näyttivät esimerkkiä, kuinka rintavarustus siveästi peitetään. Kalkkuna Looks olisi, modernia nimeämistä käyttäen, ehkä parhaiten tuota tyyliä kuvaava ilmaisu.
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Ihan uteliaisuuttani kurkistin nyt vuoden kierron jälkeen, kuinka hyvin persunaisilta on sujunut siveyden sipuleina esiintyminen ja millaisilla kuvilla naiskansanedustajat ovat tuollaisten epäsiveellisten sijaan vaalisonnikarjaansa kiihottaneet. Ja – oh my God! – siellähän on voitolla Sanna Marin -tyyli ja ehkä jotain vähän antavampaakin. Persunaiset ovat siis sittenkin huomanneet, että tyylikäs vihjailu ei ole naispoliitikollekaan ollenkaan haitaksi.
Mutta hoikkuus ei sitten ole hyväksi, sillä saattaa pääministeri menettää eduskunnan luottamuksen, kuten eräs maineikas persulääkäri keskustalaislehdessä julisti. Pitäkää kiinni läskeistänne, persunaiset, vaikka Riikka Slunga-Poutsalo onkin synnillisesti sanonut, että teissä pitää niitä olla, jotta saisi puristaa!
Luovuttakaa siis, persunaiset, ja olkaa niin kuin oottekin. Politiikan tiedoissa, taidoissa ja osaamisessa ette Sanna Marinille pärjää, se on selvyys. Mutta unohtakaa kateus myös ryntäinrintamilla, ei kaikista naisista millään saa yhtä edustavia kuvia kuin Sanna Marinista.
Voisi sitä paitsi toivoa, että perussuomalaiset, kun puolueensa rakastettu lempinimikin on persu ja politiikkakin on suoraan ahterista, alkaisivat enemmän julkaista Odinin potilaat -henkisiä kuvia. Siis takaapäin ja siveästi mustissa. Kun nuo ryntäät ovat niin läääst siison ja vaalikarjakin on sentään enimmäkseen ihan aikamiehiä eikä mitään tissimaidon lutkuttajia.
The Perussuomalaiset (PS) are known to make a lot of promises to their voters and many of these are snow jobs.
Tightening Finnish immigration policy will be challenging because it is already quite strict.
Purra has said that for her to form a government with another party, the main requirement would be tightening “significantly” immigration policy.
Even if her predecessor, Jussi Halla-aho, offers his voters anti-immigration pipedreams, it is highly improbable that his aim for Finland is to ditch its international commitments like the Geneva Refugee Convention, the EU, and UN Convention of Human Rights is far-fetched.
Even if the PS’ aims of halting asylum seekers, leave the EU, and give social inequality a thumbs up are improbable, we should never underestimate and leave their hateful words to get away with the accomplice of silence. Where are those journalists and editorials asking the PS some hard questions?
Purra plays the same game as Halla-aho. She wants to give an image of a tough and heartless politician obsessed with her ethnonationslist white worldview.
It’s been a week full of mistakes for the police. Firstly, the police admitted a big mistake in their sexual crime statistics by tabulating a single suspect of assaulting his wife 141 times. Each assault was recorded as a single person. The latest bungle came when the Helsinki police admitted it failed to correctly assess the security threat at by the Elokapina climate demonstration, according to Yle News.
In the latest fumble, the police overreacted to the presence of demonstrators and escorted President Sauli Niinistö, ministers, and other officials to exit the building through alternative routes.
Faces turned red when President Ninnistö was quoted as saying in Helsingin Sanomat that he was not directed to follow a different exit from the government palace.
“I was not shown another exit than the one that I have always used,” he said. “I never use the main door [to enter the building].”
The Oulu district court found Perussuomalaiset (PS)* MP Sebastian Tynkkynen guilty of ethnic agitation for his Facebook postings in 2017, according to Yle.While no Finnish media mentioned it, the third conviction for ethnic agitation is a record for a Finnish lawmaker.
Hiding behind Islamophobic arguments and that the sentence violated his free speech rights, Tynkkynen said that he will appeal the ruling by the district court.
The court fined him 4,050 euros.
The PS elected a new five-person board in August. Apart from Tynkkynen, the third vice president, the second vice president, Mauri Peltokangas, is also facing ethnic agitation charges.
Finland’s worst Islamophobists: Sebastian Tynkkynen and Junes Lokka. Source: Facebook
The prosecutor defended his case by saying that Tynkkynen had targeted asylum and immigrants in his Facebook posts by blaming, among other things, that all Muslims are terrorists.
According to Helsingin Sanomat, Deputy Mayor for Education of Helsinki, Nasima Razmyar, believes that the best way to deal with inequality at Helsinki schools is by paying teachers a bigger salary. Ramyar has a good idea, but it does not even begin to deal with why there is so much inequality at some schools and why we are now hearing this suggestion from her.
“The differences are huge,” she was quoted as saying. “We have areas [in Helsinki] where 40% of families live on income support. Socio-economic differences are visible daily at schools.”
Razmyar said that a lot of work by teachers and principals at such schools deals with handling social problems.
While it is a good matter that Razmyar is trying to find solutions on how to deal with rising inequaility at Helsinki schools, her suggestion of paying teachers a higher salar fall short on addressing the real culprit, which is racism and social inequality in our society.
The City of Helsinki has many resources to deal with social inequality among youths, money is only one of many that will help alleviate the problem.
Imagine as well the attacks by anti-immigration politicians and parties against minority children on how they receive preferential treatment through better-paying teachers.
Even if such advocates may claim that immigration is costly, we can also argue that racism, discrimination, and social exclusion cost society.
Let’s hope that Razmyar and the City of Helsinki can come up with more effective solutions.
This is a good start but it is a disappointment because it subcontracts social ills to higher pay.
Wrong. I am not talking about people who post a lot of racist trash like from the far-right Perussuomalaiset (PS)* party. I am specifically talking about those who claim to be against racism but are unwilling to challenge institutionalized racism and suffering, in many cases, from white fragility.
Our system of institutional racism has so much impunity in Finland that it has not only given birth to the PS, one of the biggest parties in parliament but ensured its growth.
Institutional racism is so “normal” in Finland that few take it seriouslsy, never mind those public services that are supposed to protect our rights. It explains why people with diehard racist ideas can camouflage their bigotry with the help of institutional raicism, and why they get money and support for projects that are supposed to challenge racism and improve the lives of Others.
Instead of challenging racism, such projects perpetuate it.
If you want, I can give you a list of some of the worst spreaders of racism in Finland: the PS, Kokoomus, Christian Democrats, and all the parties, the police, Riikka Purra, Jussi Halla-aho, Wille Rydman, Ano Turtiainen, and a very, very long and shameful list of others.
Ever wonder why the media gives such people so much space to spread their views and rarely asks Other Finns their opinions?
As more people from different cultures and countries move to this country, the more racism will raise its ugly head. The reason is simple: there is little serious opposition to such a social ill.
All hell will break loose in the future eventually when enough non-white Finns begin to demand their rights and, lord and behold, power.
Do not fool yourself. Nobody will give our dignity and rights if we do not demand them ourselves.
The ongoing discussion in Finland about our ever-growing cultural and ethnic diversity is grounded on two misleading assertions that hide the core problem: language is the magic bullet to become a part of society, and white Finnish society is innocent – if you don’t adapt it’s because of you.
Heikki Turkka of Children of the Station (Aseman lapsia ry) association was quoted as saying on MTV that youth gans in Helsinki may mostly comprise of so-called children of migrant backgrounds.
He adds offering an explanation to why non-white Finns may be a majority in such gangs:
“I’m not surprised at all when I am working with youths,” he said. “If you lack the right language skills, it’s not possible to have the same opportunities to succeed at school, academia, or in a hobby where you would be accepted. In such a case, your opportunities are limited.”
Few will deny that language plays an important role in one’s adaption in Finland and elsewhere. What is misleading, however, is that we spread this myth as a panacea to your final adaption to this country.
Most people know about how difficult it is for a member of the Roma community to get a job interview despite the fact that that person’s mother tongue is Finnish. There are also examples of how difficult it is for brown Finns and other minorities to get job interviews because of their ethnic and cultural background.
An interesting case in point is Spain, where there is a sizeable Latin American community. These people speak Spanish as their mother tongue, are mostly Catholics, and know about Spanish culture because their country of birth was once a Spanish colony.
