https://www.euronews.com/2023/06/20/racism-and-rape-fantasies-the-pr-headache-facing-finlands-new-right-wing-government

In response to a request for comment, the Finns Party tells Euronews Halla-aho "is one of the most esteemed politicians in Finland."

However, Party Secretary Arto Luukkanen says "your information concerning Finnish politics is not apt and does not correspond to realities of life. To rely on biased sources is a typical 'rookies-mistake' (sic), both in journalism and in historiography (sic)" he added.

  • doublepepperoni [none/use name]
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    1 year ago

    I think the first quote about the whipping is from his university days when he was interviewed as part of his band or something. The second is from some bizarre probably made up incident he recounted on his blog where he claims a gay guy walked up to him and demanded to suck his dick while he was out with his wife and children, which, uhh... look at him doubt. He said he had nothing against gay people but he only wanted to shoot this gay guy

    He typically kept his power levels lower on his blog, frequently reiterating that he was Not Racist™. Of course, he belongs to Suomen Sisu and has quotes like the first one floating about which makes the denials a bit less effective

    • BelieveRevolt [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      Typically, but he did write that thing about "Somalis being genetically inferior and only capable of leeching off of taxpayers' money", which got him convicted for incitement fuck-around

      • doublepepperoni [none/use name]
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        1 year ago

        Yes, but even that was done in an annoying pedant way. IIRC, there was some article where a liberal journalist said Finnish people were racist, or violent, or prone to beating their wives or something else based on statistics. Halla-aho and his circle proceeded to get extremely mad about how this racist slander against the proud people of Finland could get published in a newspaper

        Halla-aho then dug up some more cherrypicked crime and welfare statistics about Somali immigrants and went

        If it's okay to say that Finnish people are backwards and racist based on statistics, it should also be okay to say that Somalis are nothing but lazy freeloaders genetically predisposed to thievery and violent crime, and if I get into trouble for saying so it just proves the media has a double standard and that some ethnicities are more equal than others kubrick-stare

        See? He's not racist, he's just concerned about Ethics in Gaming Journalism