#OTD 12 years ago, a man set of a car bomb and opened fire against teenagers on a summer camp on a Norwegian island of #Utoya, killing 77 people. The man turned out to have written a racist manifesto naming the current Speaker of the Finnish Parliament as one of his inspirations regarding his "great replacement" delusions. The party members of the Speaker, including their current party leader and Minister of Finance, still refer to this theory in their political motivations.
Small follow-up on this. The largest daily paper in Finland didn't see it worthwhile to mention Utøya at all yesterday, and neither did the fresh Minister for Interior, who also has frequently referred to the delusional concept that Finnish population is being "replaced" by aliens and is among the loudest voices demanding that Finland stop accepting immigrants.
We are of course not the only nation recently having been infected by a racist government. That epidemic is spreading.
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