A few Finnish politicians doubled down their support for the former Miss Finland (top left), who made the Asian racist gesture a few days ago.
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  • 106 points Emotional-Zone9147

    What are they like 5? Morons.

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  • 143 points Long-Requirement8372

    Far right politicians of a xenophobic party. Most Finns are against their crap.

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    15 points Frig_Off_Baerb

    Huge surprise that they're from the right.

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    -23 points zionismisdisgusting

    Sorry but the majority voted them in and will do it again next election!

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    17 points Long-Requirement8372

    What majority? They are polling at under 15% right now.

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    -20 points zionismisdisgusting

    The majority of the population is who voted them into power.

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    12 points reklamejelling

    No they got 20 percent of the vote and part of a coalitions government but not in change of that government. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Finnish_parliamentary_election

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orpo_cabinet

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  • 65 points Irishwol

    Politicians from what party? Be clear. I mean fascists are racists. It's in the job description. But the headline makes it look like this bullshit is happening across party lines.

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    20 points Long-Requirement8372

    It is the "Finns Party". I like to call them Basic Finns, like the original party name directly translates to.

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    2 points unohdin-nimeni

    Exactly those four from “The Finns Party”.

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  • 70 points unohdin-nimeni

    I hope there’s internet literacy here.

    These four are of course far-right politicians. If they were from any decent party, the OP would have told you that. Calling a small handful of bigots "a few Finnish politicians" without giving details is a clear attempt to smear Finland.

    The politicians who chose to do this gesture are Juho Eerola, Kaisa Garedew, Sebastian Tynkkynen, and some other guy. The four make up a little minority within The Finns Party, which represents a fifth of the Finnish voters. The support has also dropped to 10–13% since the last election.

    The original eye-stretching photo shared by a friend of then-Miss Finland caused a storm of criticism. Otherwise she wouldn't be former Miss Finland now. And these "politicians" wouldn't have felt the need to stretch their eyes to support her if there hadn't been a debate.

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    7 points Full_FrontaI_Nerdity

    Thank you for helping us understand!

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    -2 points unohdin-nimeni

    Glad to hear that I’m of help! You can easily see the OP’s intentions. Anyway he/she was unable to find more than 4 social media posts to support this claim about “a few Finnish politicians”. He/she is also unwilling to let you know anything about the case.

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    3 points Prosecco1234

    Thanks for clarifying

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    -1 points unohdin-nimeni

    Happy to help

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  • 12 points Substantial-Tip3252

    Literally, ew

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  • 8 points TopEagle4012

    This xenophobia or my superior race, my superior country, and my superior religion seems to be exploding not just in the US but in other countries too. It's as though the world has gone somewhat mad, and instead of embracing our differences and finding the similarities, fear is stoked. Then people resort to my race my color my religion my creed is better than yours and therefore we have to kick the minorities out of our country to protect ourselves. More enlightened aware culturally spiritually and emotionally people see through this, but unfortunately, their voices are drowned out by the oligarchs who want to stoke the fears and grab more power.

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    5 points GlocalBridge

    Xenophobia and ethnocentrism are inherent in nationalism, which is always concerned with boundary maintenance and expelling those from the nation who “do not belong.”

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  • 4 points JoshyaJade01

    How long before they're fired?

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  • 4 points wishiwasdeaddd

    God that's so embarrassing for them

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  • 10 points Gobbyer

    More visibility this gets, more likely they will resign! (I hope)

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    7 points Long-Requirement8372

    No way that'l happen. They have no shame, they'll just triple down instead.

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  • 3 points Current_Grass_9642

    These people are Finnished!

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  • 3 points Dphre

    So brave. Morons …

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  • 3 points tickitytalk

    Assholes in every country

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  • 3 points uvite2468

    too bad their faces didn’t freeze like that. Fucking losers.

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  • 3 points MFJMM

    So glad to see that america doesn't have a monopoly on garbage humans

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  • 2 points Civil_Pain_453

    It does show the racists they are. Vote them into oblivion

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  • 2 points StraddleTheFence

    Shameful and absolutely disgusting.

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  • 2 points deifyglorify

    f those racist fins

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  • 1 points Lux-xxv

    Yikes

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  • 1 points Mikenmikena2025

    Where is the guy from sisu when you need him.

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  • 1 points shitmarble_milks_you

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  • 1 points Intelligent_Read_43

    I thought we all knew better?

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  • 1 points suitorarmorfan

    The usual suspects (far right politicians)

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  • 1 points SpcT0rres

    What's wrong with YT people?

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    1 points KarmicRage

    It's not just white people, there's racists amongst every group on earth

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  • -1 points ishiguro_kaz

    I have Chinese blood. I have slanted eyes, too. I am not offended.

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    1 points meridian_smith

    No need to be...white girls on Instagram are trying all sorts of makeup techniques to look more Asian all the time... especially to make their eyes appear more Asian. It's a beauty esthetic.

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  • -2 points Curious_Assistance76

    The pearl clutching in here lmao

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