This is coming from a currently far-right + hard capitalist government so I'm wary of how truthful this news is
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I must be mistaken. I thought the EU had made it illegal. Finland is part of the EU last I checked.
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.
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.