You cannot make this up. National Coalition Party Prime Minister Petteri Orpo’s government plans to offer an hour-long anti-racism training for the government. The training has been postponed to after the municipal and regional elections of April.
“It will be an intensive training of about an hour, including discussion,” Katriina Nousiainen, project manager and senior expert at the prime minister’s office, was quoted as saying in Helsingin Sanomat.
The course was suggested after the numerous racism scandals last summer that led to the resignation of Perussuomalaiset Minister of Economic Affairs Wilhelm Junnila and the resurfacing of Finance Minister Riikka Purra’s racist writings from 2008.
The scandals of the summer of 2023 almost forced Orpo’s government to fall. In the autumn, it published an anti-racism statement that was nothing more than a ploy to save the government’s skin.
The most recent scanal brought by the non-discrimination ombudsman is another case in point of the toothless and empty efforts to tackle racism when PS Interior Minister Mari Rantanen attempted to favor Christians over Muslims in the quota-refugee scheme.
The government and large sectors of Finland have a serious issue with racism. Not doing enough and playing dumb to the social ill is just as bad as being openly racist.
Shame of on Finland!
