Perussuomalaiset (PS)* chairman Timo Soini has good acting skills and a poor memory. At a press conference Thursday he told us about the death threats he’s received. I know how he feels because I too have received such death threats possibly from people inspired by the PS’ populist and hateful ideology.
Even if I’ve lived in countries like Argentina and Colombia, I never got death threats. That happened to me for the first time in the early 1990s in Finland, when I was doing a big story for Apu magazine on the refugee center of Mikkeli.
There is a perfect quote that sits well with Soini and the PS in light of today’s press conference: “What goes around comes around,” which means that whether you do good or bad things to other people, the same will return to you.
For some white Finns the PS may be a good party but for some migrants and minorities in this country like Muslims it can be an extremely hateful and dangerous party.
Read full Iltalehti (in Finnish) story here.
While all types of threats should be condemned, Soini forgets that he has with the PS created a monster of his own making that has come to haunt him with his death threats.
How many migrants and visible minorities face racism and hostility on a daily basis in this country because of Soini’s cronies like MEP Jussi Halla-aho and the likes are exercising their “free speech” to disenfranchise them?
Soini has with the PS polarized Finland and encouraged many of his followers to be proud bigots.
All the hate, bigotry and racism that parties like the PS are spreading goes and comes around.
* The English name of the Perussuomalaiset (PS) is officially the Finns Party. The names adopted by the PS, like True Finns or Finns Party, promote in our opinion nativist nationalism and xenophobia. We therefore prefer to use the Finnish name of the party on our postings.
This is so typical of you Enrique. Showing once again your double standards. If PS gets death threats, its all their fault. What goes around comes around. On other hand when you get threats, then its not your fault but PS’s fault. Somehow the “what goes around comes around” doesn’t apply to you or your buddies. Same thing with any other violence or action. Terrorist attacks against whites is in your mind white’s own fault, but if whites attack non whites, then its evilness of whites. Can’t you see your own double standards?