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Racism and violence: Finland's government plagued by new scandal

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Racism and violence: Finland's government plagued by new scandal

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Politics@beehaw.org · 1 year ago

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Inflammatory blog post comments from 15 years ago have been linked to the far-right Finns Party leader and current finance minister, Riikka Purra, who hasn't denied it.

Now even Euronews made an article about this.

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“but but but the true Finn’s aren’t like other right wing parties!!! They totally are in favor of [insert moderate policy]”
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  I prefer the party be called “The Rudimentary Finns Party”.
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    “The party of people with preliminary Finnish descent”
    
    Or maybe just “Perkele” ist enough.

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