Riikka Purra "not resigning" as controversial blog comments resurface
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Finns Party leader Riikka Purra said that as an MP or minister, she would not write all the things she has written in the past, but she has no intention of resigning or regretting her past actions.

The comments on the Scripta blog — written under the username “riikka” — include multiple uses of the Finnish equivalent of the n-word as well as other racial slurs, anti-immigrant rhetoric and apparent threats of violence. The texts use racist expressions such as “mocha dicks” and “Turkish monkeys”.

On 25 August 2008, “riikka” wrote: “Greetings from Barcelona. There is no “alarming immigration problem” to be seen here. N-word sell pirated Vuittons on Las Ramblas, scarves are hidden and each stays with their own.”

On 25 September 2008, “riikka” wrote about a confrontation on a train with young people from an immigrant background, saying “If they gave me a gun, there’d be bodies on a commuter train, you see.”

  • 133arc585@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    In WW2 Finland hid Jewish people from the Nazis and the alliance was probably a mandatory evil after not getting support against the other fascists coming over the over

    Is that so?

    Authorities in the Scandinavian nation revealed the findings Friday in a 248-page government-commissioned independent report, which showed that 1,408 Finnish volunteers — many between the ages of 17 and 20 — served with the SS Panzer Division Wiking from 1941 to 1943.

    …

    After losing several territories to a Soviet invasion in 1939, Finland entered a deal with Nazi Germany for material support against Moscow. But the agreement also required the Nordic country provide some 400 volunteers for the SS Wiking division — a pact it reluctantly honored, the report concluded.

    I’ll say this: if part of the requirement of “getting support against the other fascists coming over” is to supply volunteers to kill Jews, it’s not excusable in the least. It’s completely unacceptable.

    • boredtortoise@lemm.eeOP
      0·
      1 year ago

      Yes. It’s very probable that war crimes did happen as they happen with every country in a war. Nobody in their sound mind is proud of that alliance

      In the present day it’s very important to remove all fascists from power

      Even you recognized the issues Ukraine has with neo-nazis even though they’re in a better ethical position defending against the invader. Even there are war crimes which need to be sorted after the situation

      • 133arc585@lemmy.ml
        02·
        1 year ago

        It’s very probable that war crimes did happen as they happen with every country in a war.

        So many weasel words. It’s not just “very probable”, Finland’s own government published and stands by a multi-hundred page report documented how it did happen. Also, not every country was offering up volunteers to help murder Jews, so don’t make this “all sides” junk claim.

        Also, you glossed over the key point I made: if the cost to get protection from what you perceive as an invading threat is to offer up volunteers to kill Jews, you are completely in the wrong for accepting that protection. That is not a fair trade-off to make.