Freedom of speech is a two-way street. While I find the anti-Jewish conspiracy theories of Kärkkäinen to be both repugnant and childish, my views are guided by the understanding of the 1st. amendment of the US constitution, where such speech, as long as it does…
Finnish antisemitism. This nasty conspiracy anti-semite sure wants to bankrupt himself, in Finland they have hate speech laws (everyone regularly reading the TT knows exactly how I feel about these laws, self defeating etc.) and Juha Kärkkäinen just had to shell out over 45…
The case finally comes to an end, I would have rather have seen him incur massive net losses in business as a result of the business world giving him the cold shoulder, than the use of hate speech laws to fine him only 45…
Customers and advertisers staying away in droves, mission completed. This proves my point, that within the real civil society, the vast majority of people, being of decent and honest character, will vote with their pocket books. We do not need government involvement in civil…
It appears that the supermarket chain is also a repeat offender. According to the Finnish Swedish language blog, Israelnyheter, a local supermarket chain has been running a number of antisemitic articles in its advertising magazine that contain antisemitic op-eds, by crackpot antisemitic conspiracy theorists…
Change or see your franchise implode… Far right retail magnate shunned On Sunday Helsingin Sanomat published a lengthy profile of Juha Kärkkäinen, a retail magnate from Ylivieska in Ostrobothnia with strong links to far-right groups, a penchant for publishing anti-semitic texts in freesheet newspapers and…
They’re throwing a whole lot of charges against the guy to see what will stick. I personally don’t follow his site, finding it disgusting he’s aligned with Jew hater, Juha Kärkkäinen of the infamous antisemitic online magazine, magnettimedia. That said, the use of hate speech…
It’s rich that the site would be accused of disseminating false news/distortions of the truth, YLE and other big media do that on a regular basis, and never apologize for it. I only need to point to YLE itself in how it reported on the…
And all these stores doing business with them, need to do the right thing as well. Finlayson ends co-operation with Kärkkäinen over “repulsive propaganda” The Finnish textile company announced on Friday that it would no longer work with Kärkkäinen stores owing to shop’s close relationship…
“The ultimate good desired is better reached by free trade in ideas — that the best test of truth is the power of the thought to get itself accepted in the competition of the market, and that truth is the only ground upon which their…
Just recently in Finland, a well known anti-Semite, Juha Kärkkäinen, was awarded a civic medal by the city hall council of Ylivieska. So the awarding of the Sakharov Prize (he has to be turning in his grave), that rewards the “respect for international law, development…
Juha Kärkkäinen was found guilty of spreading hatred for Jews in his store newsletter and on his online website. Regardless of where you fall on the free speech rights issue, this incident shouldn’t leave you with too much to mull over, the city shouldn’t…
I guess paying for your ticket is just way too much to ask. A TT translation: Youth gang clashed with the ticket inspectors on the Metro- “there was a terrible cry A confrontation took place on the metro yesterday between a gang of youths…
In the U.S., this store and its owners would have been (justifiably) brutalized in the press, and it’s financial holdings greatly depleted as one supplier after the other would have been contacted and made aware of the immorality of doing business with it, and…
This is a story about the Finnish department store chain that the TT broke in the English blogosphere last year. In a close analysis of the publication’s editorial coverage, Samuels wrote that “past editions have featured conspiracy theories regarding allegedly perverse medical effects of certain pharmaceuticals,…
What a tangled web we weave. The free paper issued to over 360 000 homes by the J.Kärkkäinen supermarket chain, Magneetti Media, has been consistently publishing conspiracy stories for some time now, many of them anti-Semitic. There’s no question about it, J.Kärkkäinen has a…