Radical right politicians like Mari Rantanen, the new interior minister of Prime Minister Petteri Orpo’s government, claimed with a poker face in an Uusi Suomi interview that she does not see any racism or far-right issues in her party. “I don’t know then what we are supposed to renounce,” she added. For those who have…
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Finnish election 2023: Kokoomus wins with the far right only a short distance behind
One headline on Yle caught my eye: Finns voted to oust Sanna Marin’s government. Or was it something like this that the New York Times headlined: “Finland’s prime minister toppled in tight election.“ Headlines Madrid’s El País: “The conservatives win the election in Finland, a short distance from the far right [PS].” Here’s my headline suggestion: “Finland continues to deny and…
Does Finland need critical race theory?
THIS STORY WAS UPDATED Aminkeng A. Alemanji, a Cameroonian researcher who defended successfully in October 2016 his doctoral dissertation on anti-racism education, is the closest you will get to critical race theory in Finland. Even if some link critical race theory to movements like BLM, it has been around for about 40 years. Critical race theory, like…
Argentina’s issues with whitewashing and genocide. Like the crimes committed during the dirty war, they too should be addressed.
When I was young, I remember very well the racism of the Argentines. A friend of mine from Rosario highlighted this racism in the following example: An porteño (a resident of the capital Buenos Aires) told his friends that he was going to travel to South America as if Buenos Aires was surrealistically still a part of Europe.
Exposing white Finnish privilege #40: To whitewash or to disenfranchise
If we wanted to give an extreme picture of how people are “integrated” into society, we could go back to the 1940s when Jews, the Roma and other undesirables of the Nazi regime were transported in boxcars to death camps. Just like those that were separated and sent to go the gas chamber or would…
QUOTE OF THE DAY: White washing in Finland
If Finland had a very effective white washing* process in place from independence, who dismantled it or was it ever dismantled? I have my serious doubts. Blackfaces are still aired on Finnish television. The clip above was shown on Pressiklubi on October 6, 2017, and the full movie in 2016. In the 1970s, when it…