PS MP Laura Huhtasaari’s problems deepen concerning her alleged membership in a racist Facebook community

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Migrant Tales understands that a complaint had been made to Facebook about a racist community called  Puskaraiskaajien rasistinen tausta ! or “The racist background of rapists [hiding] in bushes.” Facebook concluded that it did not breach community standards.  

Does this mean that the Facebook site doesn’t insult and degrade minorities like blacks and Muslims? Not at all!

Social platforms like Facebook and Twitter are responsible for much of the racism and bigotry that you’ll find on social media today.

But at least Perussuomalaiset (PS)* MP Laura Huhtasaari considers the Puskaraiskaajien rasistinen tausta ! Facebook community to be so racist that she doesn’t want to have anything to do with it. 

Huhtasaari is in hot water this week after  Helsingin Sanomat exposed her belonging to that racist Facebook community.

Posting a picture on that Facebook site of a black child in a pail eating a watermelon that reads “a bucketful of shit” does not apparently breach Facebooks’ community standards. Fine.

But at least Huhtasaari has more sense than Facebook since she considers her membership in that community could either hurt or boost her political career.

Racism and xenophobia are crowd pleasers in today’s Finland and can do wonders for your political career.

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UPDATE (July 4): Migrant Tales’ 2015 Hall of Poor and Sloppy Journalism

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Migrant Tales’ 2015 Hall of Poor and Sloppy Journalism will be updated separately. To see other examples of opinionated journalism in Finland about cultural diversity, please go to this link.

July 4

Bloggaja väittää: Huhtasaari liittyi rasistiseen Facebook-ryhmään itse (Satakunnan Kansa)

What’s wrong with this story? This story by Pori-based daily Satakunnan Kansa is a good example of lazy journalism at its best.It is also an example of how some newspapers are reluctant to challenge politicians with xenophobic agendas. Perussuomalaiset (PS)* MP Laura Huhtasaari got her fingers burned this week when Helsingin Sanomat, Finland’s biggest daily, scooped that she was a member of a racist Facebook site that has pictures of black children in pales eating watermelon with the following text, “A bucketful of shit.” Huhtasaari accused without any evidence that Sakari Timonen, one of Finland’s best anti-racism bloggers, had tipped off Helsingin Sanomat and even hacked her profile on the racist Facebook page. Instead of stating that the blogger claims that Huhtasaari joined the Facebook site herself, why didn’t Satakannun Kansa ask an IT expert to resolve the matter? Under her profile picture on the Facebook site it read that Huhtasaari joined and was not joined by some person. Huhtasaari claims that her profile ended up on the Facebook site by somebody without her permission. Sounds fishy, especially coming from a declared anti-immigration politician like herself.

UPDATE: It appears that our efforts to get in touch with Satakunnan Kansa paid off. In a new story published on the same day the daily asks an Internet authority about Huhtasaari’s defense. The Internet authority claims that Huhtasaari could have been joined to the racist Facebook community if somebody had access to her password.

 

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* The Finnish name of the Finns Party is the Perussuomalaiset (PS). The English-language names adopted by the PS, like True Finns or Finns Party, promote in our opinion nativist nationalism and xenophobia. We therefore prefer to use the Finnish name of the party on our postings.

Sweden’s former Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt is bewildered by Finland’s immigration policy

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Sweden’s former right-wing Moderate Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt expresses bewilderment by Finland’s immigration policy, writes business daily Kauppalehti. “It is remarkable that before theelections in Finland they spoke about the importance of labor immigration but are [now] struggling to close Finland’s doors [to such people].”

Bewilderment? I would call it disappointment and caving in to one’s fears and populism.

The answer is simple and it comes in a long  and unfriendly name to pronounce for foreigners: P e r u s s u o m a l a i s e t (PS).*

The PS are in government with the Center Party and National Coalition Party. Immigration policy is under PS Labor and Justice Minister Jari Lindstöm.

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Our foreign minister is the head of the PS, Timo Soini, who has some issues with the EU and is the main apologist for the racist behavior of his party.

This racist behavior that he defends as a good cop discourages skilled migrants, foreign investment and jobs from growing in this country.

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PS MP Huhtasaari gets fingers burned after Helsingin Sanomat uncovers her membership in a racist Facebook site

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Laura Huhtasaari of the Perussuomalaiset (PS)* party found herself in hot water Thursday after Finland’s largest daily Helsingin Sanomat did some investigative journalism about the MP’s membership in a racist Facebook site that has pictures of black children eating watermelon in a pail that read another “bucketful of shit.”

Huhtasaari is well known to Migrant Tales. Yes, right, she’s the Islamophobe blonde with the kindergarten teacher smile who got a hand from MEP Jussi Halla-aho in her campaign.

Halla-aho was sentenced for ethnic agitation and is the leader of the PS’ far right anti-immigration wing.

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Certainly the revelation by Helsingin Sanomat that she belonged to the racist Facebook site “Puskaraikaajien rasistinen tausta,” or “The racist background of rapists [hiding] in bushes,” didn’t make her very happy.

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Finland’s deputy state prosecutor to investigate Sademies’ Facebook post on sterilizing Africans

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Perussuomalaiset (PS)* Helsinki substitute councilman Olli Sademies’ post on Facebook at the end of May, where he wrote that Africans should be sterilized after three children, is going to be investigated by the deputy state prosecutor, according to Tampere-based daily Aamulehti, citing Finnish News Agency (STT).  

Using such violent language against any minority by anyone never mind a politician belonging to Finland’s second-largest party is unacceptable. Sadmies’ claim on Facebook is, in our opinion, tantamount to inciting ethnic agitation and violence against black people in this country.

Apart from his political credentials, Sademies is a retired policeman. I wonder what that says about the Finnish police service.

No action was taken by the PS against what Sademies posted about African men.

When confronted last month by YLE’s Swedish language service, Seppo Kanerva, who is head of the Helsinki PS city council group, said that they hadn’t had time to discuss what Sademies wrote on Facebook. “We had so much to talk about that we didn’t have time for such nonsense,” he said.

Kanerva did say, however, that if Sademies continues to write similar posts he could be sacked from the party.

Sadmies’ Facebook page was taken down Tuesday after he posted a “business idea” about an aerosol that would spray pig’s blood on Muslims. 

The substitute councilman claims that he was taken down because of an identity check but we know that Migrant Tales’ associate editor Marshall Niles filed a complaint to Facebook about his racist and disgraceful posting.

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Danish People’s Party Pia Kjærsgaard: Inte min talman, or not my speaker of parliament [1]

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Perussuomalaiset (PS) [2] Speaker of Parliament Maria Lohela no longer is alone in the Nordic region after Denmark’s new center-right government elected the founder of the xenophobic Danish People’s Party (DPP), Pia Kjærsgaard, as the new speaker of parliament, according to the Copenhagen Post. Like her counterpart in Finland, Kjærsgaard has built her political career on Islamophbobic fear-mongering. 

The new Danish speaker of parliament was named a few years ago by Swedish magazine Gringo as the “racist of the year,”

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Bashy Quraishy, an anti-racism activist in Denmark, writes: “This sad Danish political development [election of Kjærsgaard] is an indication of the things to come and against which progressive activists have been warning for years…In a way it is good because it can activate the ethnic minorities, leftwing forces and humanists in Denmark. It is my hope!”

Just like the PS, which are close political and ideological allies of the DPP, the impact of last month’s Danish elections is being felt by migrants, refugees and minorities.

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Special! Buy your new Anti-Racism spray, “Olli”. In stores now! Buy one get one free!

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Our dear friend Sademies recently came out with a business idea about creating a spray made of “Pig blood“, to spray on Muslim’s. Now, see…that ran me the wrong way. I’m Indian, and have multicultural friends from across the world. Chinese, Australian, Swiss, Egyptian, Turkish, Syrian, Finnish, Norwegian, Canadian, American and more. A few of these friends have religions! Some are Catholic, some Protestants, some Buddhists, some Mormons and……some “Muslims”.

What bites me is that with the likes of Sademies, they don’t really know how to differentiate between a good and a bad person. In their eyes, if a Finn is an alcoholic (which is the global stereotype for a Finn anyways), then every Finn is an alcoholic. There is no hard working Finns, multi cultural Finns, Successful Finns, nah..just all alcoholic. In the same way, if a refugee has commited rape, then in Sademies’s opinion, all refugees are rapists. Africans should be sterelized, because ALL African men breed multitudes of children. Theres no hard working African man who wakes up at 5 everyday and goes to work, pays his taxes, comes home to his wife and children and lives a normal life. No..

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Olli Sademies tweets: “I was taken down from Facebook due to an identity check”

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Perussuomalaiset (PS)* substitute councilman for Helsinki, Olli Sademies, tweets that he was taken down from Facebook due to an identity check. If this is true, we should see Sademies back on Facebook soon with his racist comments about Muslims and Africans. 

A warning: Facebook and Twitter are hostile places for migrants and minorities because a lot of the racism we see in society originates from these two places. Marshall Niles complained to Facebook about Sademies’ recent post about a pig’s blood spray for Muslims.

Were there others who sent similar complaints? We don’t know. But we do know that Sademies has a lot of people who dislike what he posts.

Why would Facebook want to verify Sademies’ identity now if they do that shortly after the person begins using the social networking service?

Writes Marshall Niles, who reported Sademies: “Ironically, for a man who is so blatant and outspoken towards his pig blood sterilization erotica, he seems to be embarrassed to tell his minions that his Facebook was deactivated for violating its community standards, which clearly state “No Racism/ No attacks against a group of people based on caste, color, creed, sex etc”…

We hope that Facebook understands that posts by a politician like Sademies should not be tolerated because they fuel hatred and prejudice. A new James Hirvisaari has resurfaced from the PS and his name is Olli Sademies.

Sademies has been on the warpath against Muslims and Africans. In May he wrote on Facebook that those Africans who have three children should be sterilized. On Monday he resurfaced attacking Muslims by suggesting a “business idea” to create a pig’s blood spray that would be used against Muslims.

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Sademies tweets that his Facebook page has been taken down due to an identity check.

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Migrant Tales tweets back: What’s the [real] reason why you were taken down from Facebook?

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Marshall Niles’ example shows that racists can be taken down from Facebook

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Marshall Niles, who is an associate editor of Migrant Tales, did what any sensible person would do when confronted with a heavy load of racism and Islamophobia: Find a way to challenge it. And that’s what he did. Perussuomalaiset (PS)* Helsinki substitute councilman for the city of Helsinki, Olli Sademies, got taken down from Facebook thanks to Niles’ leadership. 

Sademies has been on the warpath against Muslims and Africans. In May he wrote on Facebook that those Africans who have three children should be sterilized. On Monday he resurfaced attacking Muslims by suggesting a “business idea” to create a pig’s blood spray that would be used against Muslims.

Apart from the shameful silence of the PS and that of other political parties against these type of racist comments, Niles showed leadership by reporting Sademies to Facebook.

What Niles did is exemplary and what we should do when anyone spreads the same type of racism and hate speech.

Well done Marshall! We’re all very proud of you for ridding such a disgraceful politician from Facebook.

I hope many others will follow your example.

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Marshall Niles reported Olli Sademies to Facebook for his racist rants.

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