- The news story only cites percentages, not numbers
- The percentages are used to label all migrants, especially some groups.
Most of the stories written about migrant rape cases in Finland fit these two characteristics to a tee. Why? Because the percentages have more umph and permit us to eat our cake and keep our prejudices of others.
The Enbuske & Linnanahde talk show is one of many shoddy and racist examples of how the Finnish media labels whole groups in this country thanks to their interpretation of crime statistics.
Now you see the ad below…
This ad, which asked “why Somalis rape” was removed after people started sending emails to the talk show. There were 38 Somalis who were convicted of rape between 2009 and 2013. In 2013 there were over 15,789 Somalis living in Finland who were not Finnish citizens or who spoke Somali as their native language.*
…now you don’t.
Certainly the Tapanila gang-rape case has emboldened the media and anti-immigration group to label and paint certain migrant groups with a broad brush as “rapists.”
What the Tapanila case has revealed, however, is that racism is alive and kicking in Finland. One of its biggest accomplices is the media.
Definition #19
White Finnish privilege gives the right to label whole national and religious groups as “rapists.” Not only are migrants from such a group forced to carry such a label but are asked to apologize for the whole group.
A National Research Institute of Legal Policy (Optula), “Immigrants as crime victims and offenders in Finland,” has been used as a weapon to label migrants as “rapists.” Percentages have been used and taken out of context to show that certain migrant groups are more prone to rape than white Finns, who are actually responsible for the majority of rapes in this country.
The Optula study warns that one should not try to draw conclusions concerning differences in rape statistics according to cultural and ethnic group.
But how many rape convictions were there in 2009-13 that involved Somalis? The number is 38.
This pie chart shows the number of total convictions (2,889) for rape during 2009-13. Thirty-eight of them were by Somalis.
Can we label and victimize a whole group on the basis of 38 rapes during a four-year period?
In Finland this is possible. An A-Studio program in 2012 about migrant rape cited 7 rape convictions by Iraqis during the first five months of that year. The television program suggested that there was a “big” rape problem in the Iraqi community. In 2012-13 there were 5,919 Iraqis living in Finland, according to the Population Register Center.
Migrants have a difficult time challenging discrimination and racism in Finland, especially when the media uses studies by Optula and interprets them to suit their prejudices.
That is one of the “rights” that white Finnish privilege bestows at the cost of migrants and minorities in this country even if those statistics are unreliable to begin with.
See also:
- Defining white Finnish privilege #1: I have it and you don’t
- Defining white Finnish privilege #2: Third culture children versus “pupil with immigrant background”
- Defining white Finnish privilege #3 No history, no doctrine, no heroes and no martyrs
- Defining white Finnish privilege #4 Holding the short end of the stick
- Defining white Finnish privilege #5 It’s ok to be a racist
- Defining white Finnish privilege #6 Not having a voice and the media
- Defining white Finnish privilege #7 A definitive guide
- Defining white Finnish privilege #8 Underrated and less intelligent
- Defining white Finnish privilege #9 Mohammad Ali’s insight
- Defining white Finnish privilege #10 I can victimize and make up any story I like about migrants because I’m white
- Defining white Finnish privilege #11: Case Teuvo Hakkarainen
- Defining white Finnish privilege #12: Case Tom Packalén
- Defining white Finnish privilege #13: Case Matti Putkonen
- Defining white Finnish privilege #14: Losing sight of the real issue
- Defining white Finnish privilege #15: Case Halla-aho on the PS
- Defining white Finnish privilege #16: Rosa Emilia Clay and my history versus yours
- Defining white Finnish privilege #17:The Perussuomalaiset and our civil rights
- Defining white Finnish privilege #18: Labeling others according to your prejudices
* See Jussi Ojajärvi’s blog palkikat for a comprehensive loo (in Finnish) about the Optula study.
Thank you Kadar Gelle for your contribution.
Your numbers in graph are wrong, Source: your source.
Also to “level up” statistics finns should rape about 22 000 more, tell me thats not a problem… Or foreign should rape less, your choice.
Better graph https://www.dropbox.com/s/qsdiemptjk0gfxu/raiskaukset.PNG?dl=0