Let’s say better late than never.
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Good, now criminalise Genocide denial.
They did. This is unequivocally a good thing
you will apply this law with the same rigour to every genocide right? right?
Based! Fuck Nazis
This is coming from a currently far-right + hard capitalist government so I’m wary of how truthful this news is
Yeah they won’t use this to evil ends…
Fuck israel
It’s too bad we can’t make being a fucking idiot illegal, but then there wouldn’t be anywhere near enough prisons.
Curb your fascism.
Excuse me? My definition of idiot includes fascists. Curb your kneejerk.
Ok, curb your enthusiasm for fascism.
Ok troll.
I seriously believe that in an adult society you can set one or two historically damaging things aside from “freedom of speech.” I believe it was Trevor Noah who explained that when black people took back South Africa from its apartheid masters, they didn’t burn those people at the stake or prosecute them out of existence or even steal all their property. They just said you won’t be ruling this country like that anymore OH and that ONE WORD… you don’t get to say that ONE WORD ever again.
There are about 2,500 Sudanese immigrants in Finland. Why not have a law criminalizing the Darfur genocide too? Or better yet, how about a law against denying any genocide in the furtherance of hate speech?
Unfortunately, I think I know the answer to these questions. I suspect it’s related to the fact that Finland does not recognize the Palestinian state, unlike their neighbors in Norway, Sweden, and Iceland. A law criminalizing the denial of any genocide in the furtherance of hate speech would end up legally including the genocide in Palestine as soon as a case lands in a Finnish court. At that point, it would be really hard to defend their one-sided support of Israel, and lack of Palestinian state recognition.
Will they punish communism glorification as well? I’m thinking anything nazi is shit but most of the people here are shitty tankies so Hitler bad Stalin good yet both were monsters… different types but monsters and no one criminalizes the glorification of Stalinism.
I must be mistaken. I thought the EU had made it illegal. Finland is part of the EU last I checked.
Is this tacked on with a bunch of other laws related to criticism of Zionism also being against the law?
Tons of laws Israel is trying to get passed in western countries to associate anti Zionism with Antisemitism.
I doubt this is the only part of the law.
No this law only outlaws denying recognized genocides by the international court and in a hateful way.
This is a dumb law
I’m so used to bad news I read that as decriminalize
Fucking GOOD.
Hopefully we’ll also have laws against denying the holocaust israel is inflicting on palestine TOO.
Whoa. That sort of thinking requires nuance. We don’t do that here.
Maybe 50+ years after every palestinian is murdered.
That’s a conflict of interests.
