Speaking to the Asahi Shimbun on Monday, Eerola said he didn’t mean to insult anyone
I hope he’ll learn from his stupidity. He deserves the backlash. I mean yeah, he grew up in a homogeneous society with no Asians so he doesn’t know what Asians in the West go through
I’m Asian American and I’ve been bullied just because of my race/ethnicity. This gesture is one of the many that bullies did to essentially mock me
No one could possibly make that face and post it on Facebook not meaning to be insulting. Of course he did. He just regrets it now and he should speak the truth instead of lies upon lies. He first said he did it because he had a headache. 🙄
In short... Prime ministers party is a right wing "rich peoples party", currently busy dismantling welfare state and fucking everyone in the ass. The party of the racists is a far right "protest" party. They both gained plenty of protest votes post Covid, when a lot of people felt that the leftwing coalition government was ruining the economy.
So right now Finland has a coalition lead by the rich guys, who wouldn't be able to pass their welfare state ruining decisions without help. And they got help from the far right party, seemingly on the condition that the far right guys can do and say anything.
So for a while we've been enjoying many similar antics from that party. Bullshit every week, targets range from poor Finns to immigrants. Anythonh that catches attention is great in their mind. Think about the shit Trump says.
This time it FINALLY backfired a little. Racism towards Asians isn't really a thing in Finland as much as racism towards middle easterns and africans, so I think these guys didn't think they'd get the amount of backlash that they ended up getting.
Just to note, one of the guys who did this is known for having been a weirdo in Big Brother, also he has done a great number of stunts, including crawling up the stairs of the parliament in shit filled diapers as a protest against.. something? Also a racist, nationalist, yet dates (married?) an African guy and wants to adopt African kids... It's all very confusing.
tl;dr: Many of the people in that party are just 4chan meme racists, and since they have no restrictiona from the government, they go spewing shit daily looking for something to stick. Most of the Finns are pretty tired with them. Current timeline sucks.
If it had been limited to the Miss Finland incident alone, I don’t think it would have become such a serious issue. What proved fatal was The Finnis Party’s decision to follow suit and how people around them responded to those actions. There were simply too many irreversible missteps. The prime minister’s indecisive stance and the so called human rights ambassador blocking questions from Japanese users on X stand out in particular. Moreover, it hasn’t been confined to the party itself. City council members have begun making the same gesture as well. The behavior has continued to spread and there is no sign of it stopping. The human rights ambassador even labeled the Asian people who questioned her as internet trolls. On top of that, there were lawmakers making hopeless excuses such as claiming they were not being discriminatory or saying things like they like sushi. It was completely indefensible.
As a Finn I get so baffled on how anyone takes the Finns Party seriously here. NOBODY asked them to say anything. They could have been just quiet but they just had to "own the libs" by doing something idiotic (not the first time btw). Miss Finland did something racist but instead of letting her apologize and lose the title (deservedly so IMO) they just had to do this and fuel the fire.
Prime minister Orpo or the government most likely will not really do anything because Finns party are useful idiots. Kokoomus (Orpos party) will tear down our welfare state and give tax benefits to rich people while Finns party take the media attention with their racist shenanigans.
“No matter how blonde you dye your hair, how sharp you shape your nose, you can never become a European or American, you can never become a Westerner. We must know where our roots lie.”
I hope he’ll learn from his stupidity. He deserves the backlash. I mean yeah, he grew up in a homogeneous society with no Asians so he doesn’t know what Asians in the West go through
I’m Asian American and I’ve been bullied just because of my race/ethnicity. This gesture is one of the many that bullies did to essentially mock me
No one could possibly make that face and post it on Facebook not meaning to be insulting. Of course he did. He just regrets it now and he should speak the truth instead of lies upon lies. He first said he did it because he had a headache. 🙄
Googled this guy to see what political party he belongs to and yeah, he’s just a racist POS
He’s a member of a populist right wing party 🙄
Lol, he doesn't regret it.
It's all "I am so sorry I posted this *wink wink wink wink* I'll never do this again *wink wink wink*" energy.
He basically apologised that people got offended, not the act of him doing it. He didn’t learn a thing.
Can we as Asians stop defending or give the benefit of the doubt to White ppl? If only we were afforded this much grace as minorities.
And white ppl have been making racist caricatures since 1800s—it’s nothing new.
in before someone comes in and says that east asian countries are actually more racist than western countries
Thats been said already by this dumbasses defenders
In short... Prime ministers party is a right wing "rich peoples party", currently busy dismantling welfare state and fucking everyone in the ass. The party of the racists is a far right "protest" party. They both gained plenty of protest votes post Covid, when a lot of people felt that the leftwing coalition government was ruining the economy.
So right now Finland has a coalition lead by the rich guys, who wouldn't be able to pass their welfare state ruining decisions without help. And they got help from the far right party, seemingly on the condition that the far right guys can do and say anything.
So for a while we've been enjoying many similar antics from that party. Bullshit every week, targets range from poor Finns to immigrants. Anythonh that catches attention is great in their mind. Think about the shit Trump says.
This time it FINALLY backfired a little. Racism towards Asians isn't really a thing in Finland as much as racism towards middle easterns and africans, so I think these guys didn't think they'd get the amount of backlash that they ended up getting.
Just to note, one of the guys who did this is known for having been a weirdo in Big Brother, also he has done a great number of stunts, including crawling up the stairs of the parliament in shit filled diapers as a protest against.. something? Also a racist, nationalist, yet dates (married?) an African guy and wants to adopt African kids... It's all very confusing.
tl;dr: Many of the people in that party are just 4chan meme racists, and since they have no restrictiona from the government, they go spewing shit daily looking for something to stick. Most of the Finns are pretty tired with them. Current timeline sucks.
They are elected by 1/4 of Finns.
They were voted by roughly 1/5th - as a protest. Current support is lower, at around 13%.
They went from an irrelevant party to a big party to hopefully back to irrelevant minority party next election.
EDIT: Or should say, in the most recent polling it was 13%. I do hope that it drops lower in the next one. We'll see. Plenty of rural idiots here too.
If it had been limited to the Miss Finland incident alone, I don’t think it would have become such a serious issue. What proved fatal was The Finnis Party’s decision to follow suit and how people around them responded to those actions. There were simply too many irreversible missteps. The prime minister’s indecisive stance and the so called human rights ambassador blocking questions from Japanese users on X stand out in particular. Moreover, it hasn’t been confined to the party itself. City council members have begun making the same gesture as well. The behavior has continued to spread and there is no sign of it stopping. The human rights ambassador even labeled the Asian people who questioned her as internet trolls. On top of that, there were lawmakers making hopeless excuses such as claiming they were not being discriminatory or saying things like they like sushi. It was completely indefensible.
As a Finn I get so baffled on how anyone takes the Finns Party seriously here. NOBODY asked them to say anything. They could have been just quiet but they just had to "own the libs" by doing something idiotic (not the first time btw). Miss Finland did something racist but instead of letting her apologize and lose the title (deservedly so IMO) they just had to do this and fuel the fire.
Prime minister Orpo or the government most likely will not really do anything because Finns party are useful idiots. Kokoomus (Orpos party) will tear down our welfare state and give tax benefits to rich people while Finns party take the media attention with their racist shenanigans.
“No matter how blonde you dye your hair, how sharp you shape your nose, you can never become a European or American, you can never become a Westerner. We must know where our roots lie.”
Wow. He meant to offend for sure.
Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaa lol babies