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Orpo condemns Finns Party MPs over offensive gesture photos
Petteri Orpo has sharply criticised members of the Finns Party after two MPs published photos of themselves mimicking a gesture widely seen as racist. The images, posted on social media, showed the MPs pulling their eyes into slits, a move widely interpreted as mocking people of East Asian descent. Speaking during the Prime Minister’s interview hour on public broadcaster Yle, Orpo said the behaviour crossed a line. “It went into childishness,” h…
According to the Prime Minister, publishing the images "was not acceptable or reasonable."
Finnish Prime Minister Petteri Orpo is not amused by his cabinet colleagues' statements of support for a beauty queen on social media. The prime minister says true Finns are showing their childishness by posting pictures of themselves making themselves "cross-eyed."
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