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

    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