An administrative what now? Can’t they be bothered to find a tame judge to sign off on it? Short-circuiting the courts is never a good idea.
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Yle Nazi docuseries
Tabloid Iltasanomat columnist Iida Tani comments on controversy surrounding a new Yle documentary miniseries, Suomineidot (roughly, Finnish Maidens), which has received criticism for glorifying racism and Nazism.
“Suomineidot normalises hate speech, racism, and discrimination, in a way I don’t remember seeing for a while,” writes Iida Tani.
“Worst of all, the blatant racism seen in the program is disguised behind nationalism and patriotism,” she continues.
Yle is under fire for producing and carrying the series, in which its subjects claim that non-white people are not Finns and that multiculturalism is damaging Finland. In publicity pictures for the series, one of the programme’s female subjects is seen wearing a t-shirt emblazoned with the words ‘National Socialist’.
National Socialism is the ideology that drove Adolf Hitler’s government in the 1930s and 1940s. It resulted in the murder of millions of people and the attempted extermination of Jewish, Roma, Sinti and other minorities, along with the persecution of LGBT groups and other minorities and political opponents.
Yle’s programme shows the woman going on a fishing trip, among other mundane activities.
Ville Vilén, Yle’s creative director, defended the series in an Yle article published on Tuesday. He stated that nationalism and its related phenomena are not new, and that these people will not simply go away. Vilén argued that it is Yle’s role to shine a light on these societal issues.
Tani agreed with Vilén, but added a caveat.
“Vilén is right. Sweeping things under the rug does not promote the debate that is still needed in Finland. However, the key is how the media presents things. A series in which openly racist people fall victim because life in today’s liberal society is so difficult is not the way to go.”
Tani took issue with Yle’s portrayal of the series’ subjects, claiming that Yle painted them in too favourably.
“Racism and National Socialism are not synonymous with populism and conservatism. They are blatant human rights violations that should not be smoothed out or normalised.”
For some reason a dog started to act up all of a sudden… Weird…
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https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/police-iowa-teens-baseball-bat-kill-spanish-teacher-83608900
one of them described in social media posts how they followed the woman, carried out the attack and hid her body,
Evil and stupid. WTF is happening???
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With no motive revealed yet…the soul weeps.
The comment thread on that article is a trash pit.
Every time I read the comments somewhere else I am so glad I know about this place!
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Avoid the comment section. Only exceptions are here and at Ars Technica. Both very actively moderated sites. ABC? Nopenopenope.
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ABC News has the absolute worst comments! It seems as if there are a bunch of RWNJs who hang out there just to post shit and attack other people who comment.
I swear to Dog that there could be an article about butterflies and puppies, and the comments would devolve into a bunch of politically charged nonsense about the evils of both socialism and Joe Biden.
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well, RWNJ assholes did shut down that butterfly sanctuary in Texas.
(at least forced the volunteers to leave and quit, effectively shutting the place down…)
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RWNJ?
More characters
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Right Wing Nut Job.
You’re so lucky you don’t already know that…
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I think we’re all familiar with them (sadly), just that some of us olds are not familiar with millennial/ Gen Z shorthands…
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Figured out the “RW” part.
Added to the glossary.
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Get off my lawn!
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You first! 
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Good news on the butterfly sanctuary. They got so much support they were able to hire security consultants and begin to do limited entry to sanctuary members. Anyone who donated more than $35 was given a membership.
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New York City Mayor Eric Adams (D) pushed an appointee to resign after her history of extreme anti-LGBTQ rhetoric came to light. Rev. … Kathlyn Barrett-Layne of Reach Out and Touch Ministries
She’s the latest in a string of anti-LGBTQ nominees by the Adams administration, but the first that the mayor has turned on.
There are two assholes in this article.
The New York Daily News published some of her anti-LGBTQ comments. She compared homosexuality to pedophilia in her 2013 book… and said that being gay is one of many “temptations” Christians face.
“Leaders struggle with the same temptations of drugs, alcohol, homosexuality, fornication, adultery, pedophilia, stealing, lying, envy, covetousness, and every other sin that the congregation struggle with,” she wrote.
They always tell on themselves.
Adams has come under fire for appointing several people with anti-LGBTQ histories to positions of power. One was former New York City Councilman Fernando Cabrera (D), who was hired for a “faith-based” position in the administration even though he supported Uganda’s “Kill the Gays” bill several years ago, traveling to the African nation and praising it for fighting the “promotion” of homosexuality.
Brooklyn pastor Gilford Monrose was hired to head the Mayor’s Office of Faith-Based and Community Partnerships…He opposed marriage equality in the state in 2011 when the legislature was considering it, saying that voting against it is “about protecting the timeless institution.”
Great choice of a Mayor, New York /s
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“Stupid” certainly doesn’t help.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/new-research-on-trump-voters-they-re-not-the-sharpest-tools-in-the-box/ar-AAVoNEA?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531
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Maybe Belarus ‘called’?
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