Far-right populism is an illness inflicting Europe at present and it now has a beachhead in Finland.
Migrant Tales (18.4.2011)
About 20% – if not more – of Finnish voters are racist di**heads.
Few, if any, were alarmed by the Perussuomalaiset (PS)* victory in the 2011 election, which raised the number of MPs to 39 from five previously. Too many believed, incorrectly, that the PS would implode like what happened with the Rural Party in 1972 after winning two years earlier 17 seats from one previously.
The PS did not implode but became the most successful party in general elections and continued its assault and chipping away at Finnish democracy. The PS and others like the National Coalition Party (NCP) disagree with the country’s liberal opening up after it became an EU member in 1995.
Many reforms were made at the end of the 1990s like the new Constitution, citizenship law, and others that encouraged inclusion and non-discrimination.
Apart from making Finland a more inclusive country that guarantees Human Rights and social equality, the present government is taking us in the opposite direction. Apart from trade union and the most vulnerable members of our society, the government is tearing away at the rights of migrants and asylum seekers.
The iliberal reforms even encouraged parliament in July to pass a law that shelves Human Rights, our constitutional rights, and international obligations by denying people asylum at the Finnish-Russian border.
The latest attack on our democratic institutions is the anti-woke assault orchestrated by the likes of PS MP Joachim Vigelius, PS EP Sebastian Tynkkynen, PS chairperson Riikka Purra, PS Minister of Economic Affairs Wille Rydman, NCP MP Tere Sammallahdi, NCP MP Aatte Kaleva, PS MP Jani Mäkelä, PS “mouthpiece “friendly” MTV commentator Ivan Puopolo, anti-Woke “queen” Sanna Ukkola, and a shameful list of many others.
Some anti-woke pundits. Source: Helsingin Sanomat
The war against woke in Finland is not just a war against minority rights and multicultural democracy. It is an assault on our democratic institutions.
To make matters worse, the mainstream media enforces our collective incapacity to challenge the very forces that continue to chip away at our democracy and civil rights.
Clear messages through the erosion of rights and who belongs and who doesn’t are fundamental of fascist regimes, according to columnist Kimberlé W. Crenshaw.
We are seeing before our eyes the transformation of Finnish society to a very dark place.
