I hadn’t heard the statement, “I’m a racist,” for a long time. Even so, two middle-aged women were chatting in Mikkeli loudly about how bad migrants were.
I intervened because silence is a total cop-out.
“Are you a racist,” I asked one of the women.
“Yes, I’m a racist,” she snapped.
“You should be ashamed of yourself for being a racist,” I responded.
There is no need to write what they continued to say about migrants because it was straight from a Perussuomalaiset* playbook.
We cannot just snuggle here and see who comes to the border. We must promote the values of the EU with greater determination because without these values we are worthless.
We just read about the tragic death of 27 people when attempting to cross the English Channel. One of the victims was a pregnant woman with three children, according to The Guardian.
Even if Britain and France are pointing the finger, nothing will change, and refugees, people, will continue to die.
The cold-hearted treatment and hostility towards people attempting to apply for asylum in the EU show that Europe is addicted to lies.
The lie has had terrible consequences. For one, 44,746 people have drowned while crossing the Mediterranean between 1993 and 2021, according to United.
“Jotain on pahasti vialla, kun kokoomusta ei enää erota perussuomalaisista eikä iltapäivälehtia MV:stä. Tärkeintä näyttää olevan saada aikaan nettimölinää.”
Even if opposition politicians from parties like the anti-immigration Perussuomalaiset (PS)*, National Coalition Party (Kokoomus), it’s sobering that the government of Prime Minister Sanna Marin is holding the line against their onslaughts.
It is surprising that how naive the PS and Kokoomus are. No border, no law, will bring a sense of security unless you deal with the root of the problem. Walls do not keep a country safe and at the end of the day they come down like in Berlin 1989.
Walls do not keep people out. Ask the millions of Latin Americans who crossed the US border.
If we gave a free hand to these two parties, the inalienable rights of asylum seekers, like seeking asylum, would be shelved indefinitely. The hateful rhetoric that would emerge from such a move would make every non-white person a target. First asylum seekers, who’s the next group?
By dehumanizing people, we risk going up the pyramid of hate. We saw this in Nazi Germany as well as in many other countries.
Let’s hold the line against the irresponsible onslaught that undermines our Nordic welfare state values enshrined in Human Rights and social justice.
The so-called migrant crisis with Belarus offers Lukashenko and Putin an opportunity and EU politicians tools to fearmonger and score brownie points with voters.
Isn’t it odd how one-sided the news is about the refugee crisis at the Belarus border? Most of the opposition politicians, especially from the National Coalition Party (Kokoomus), believe that harsh words, threats against vulnerable people and children, suggestions of building a 1,340 km fence on the Russian border will help us continue burying our heads in the sands comfortably.
The anti-immigration Perussuomalaiset (PS)* are in an extremist league of their own. Even so, Kokoomus MPs sound like bullies out for a fight against vulnerable women, men and children.
Media coverage of the crisis is pitiful. I’m surprised that our media calls these desperate people “immigrants” when in fact, most, if not all, are fleeing war, political instability, poor economic prospects.
Thanks to Jussi Jalonen, an article in Al-Monitor gives us an in-depth view of the people trying to enter the EU via Poland and Lithuania.
Writes Al-Monitor: “Many of those at the border are from Iraqi’s Yazidi community, an ethnoreligious group long persecuted for its religious beliefs. ‘I haven’t eaten in three days,’ he said on Nov. 11 and claimed that two children died that day.'”
How to describe Perussuomalaiset (PS)* MP Veikko Vallin’s tweet below? Vallin, who likes to be called the Trump of Tampere, likes posing with MAGA caps and often makes racist remarks about asylum seekers, who are mostly Muslims. He even brags on social media about how he was able to escape taxes in Finland by moving to Estonia.
One does not have to look too far into Vallin’s social media history stained with racist posts.
The PS MP now tries to show is “anti-racism” side with the following tweet:
“@jemustakalio of the Greens speaks about “brown” people. It is an odd word. If anything, it differentiates [people]. For me, skin color does not mean anything. We are all people irrespective of our skin color.”
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Everyone can see how disingenuous Vallin’s tweet is. What about if we substituted the term skin color with “religion” or “Muslim?”
I doubt that he’d ever claim that we “are all people irrespective of our religion.”
The hard truth about Vallin’s tweet is that it is typical of people who believe Finland is only white and that there is only one kind of Finn. It is a convenient way to close one’s eyes to racism’s harm to people in Finland.
The only appropriate time people like Vallin accept “brown Finn” is when it labels such groups as criminals.
Vallin believes that racist statements will get him reelected.
This week we learned about how widespread women in the rescue department are victims of sexual harassment and discrimination, according to Yle. We also learned about the ministry of justice’s plans to tackle discrimination and hate-speech awareness with a 52-point program with the help of training increased support for organizations racism and hate crime.
Writes Yle News: “In the future all Finnish police departments will undergo training on non-discriminatory police work while municipal councillors will take courses on hate speech,” reports Helsingin Sanomat.
As parties like the National Coalition Party (Kokoomus), Christian Democrats and Movement Now (Liike nyt), and especially the Perussuomalaiset (PS)* have encouraged and given a platform to racism and bigotry, in the same way, more have spoken out against discrimination.
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.
Islamophobia and other forms of racism are for some politicians their gateway to power and infamy.
Watching part of the firey debate Wednesday in parliament that led to a vote of confidence for the government, one wonders what some politicians, especially with the Perussuomalaiset (PS)* party, have in their heads.
The saddest matter was the bullying and false claims about migrants, nothing more than storms in teacups.
Those politicians and parties who only think beyond their noses are doomed to hitting a wall.
They are heading towards such a fate because they believe that Islamophobic and other racist soundbites will help them to have and retain power and influence.
After launching an aggressive campaign and burning up a lot of money in themunicipal elections of June, the PS came in fourth place despite some polls, which showed it to come out on top.
The result was a huge disappointment and the party gasped for air.
If there is a crack line in the PS, their disappointing result in the municipal election is an indication that the public is growing weary of their broken-record scapegoat-migrant approach.
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.
