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British anthropologist on Oulu rape epidemic: Finns ‘groomed’ to love their abusers
Edward Dutton, a British anthropologist living in Oulu, has written a book about the Oulu rape epidemic. In his book, Dutton seeks an explanation of the evolutionary history of Finns as to why rape by asylum seekers has been tolerated for so long. According to the anthropologist, Finns are the smartest people in Europe, but intelligence makes us too kind to resist harmful ideas like multiculturalism ideology.
Edward Dutton is a PhD in Religious Studies and an Associate Professor of Religious Anthropology and Finnish Culture at the University of Oulu.
In a recent book, ” The Silent Rape Epidemic – How the Finns Were Groomed to Love Their Abusers ” ( “Vaiettu raiskausepidemia – kuinka suomalaiset on koulittu rakastamaan hyväksikäyttäjiään”) Dutton goes through the Oulu grooming scandal in steps telling how the police and the mainstream media initially tend to conceal and downplay what happened.
The police even first tried to deny that one of the rape victims committed suicide. Eventually, the pressure on social media became so great that the police and mainstream media were forced to disclose the events. In particular, Dutton emphasizes the role of citizen journalist Junes Loka in exposing events.
Intelligence makes you too kind and confident
But how could all this happen? Interviewed by Suomen Uutiset, Dutton seeks an explanation of evolutionary history. According to him, Finns are the smartest people in Europe, and intelligence often leads to kindness, low self-esteem and a willingness to adapt.
Finns have lived in an environment that is cold and harsh, but at the same time very predictable: if you don’t stock up for winter, you won’t see spring. The small pool of genes and the harsh living environment create people who have to invest in cooperation.
“Selfishness and conscientiousness are typical characteristics,” explains Dutton.
The desire to join the crowd is emphasized: no one wants to “rock the common boat”. More negative features include low self-esteem, a desire to be liked and imitated, and an over-reliance on community leaders.
Kindness, trust and empathy are basically good things, but Dutton says that too much empathy for other people can even bring on the spectrum of schizophrenia. This may partly explain the extreme caring attitude of many Finns towards asylum seekers.
The main problem is that intelligent people, on average, are too kind and confident to be able to resist bad decisions or self-destructive ideologies imposed on them by bad leaders.
In 2003, Oulu was a boring place
Like so many foreign men, Dutton came to Finland after a woman. While studying religion at the University of Aberdeen, he met a Finnish exchange student. Today, the couple are married and have two children. His wife works as a Lutheran priest.
Dutton describes Oulu in the beginning of the millennium as an extremely boring place where practically only Finns lived. In the Helsinki metropolitan area, the drawbacks of multiculturalism had already begun to emerge, and Tony Halme had just been elected to Parliament, and they had been spared. The Finns had a couple of other MPs. But all the Doulans encountered in Oulu were firmly of the opinion that immigration should never be a problem in Oulu.
– I told them that I, as a time traveler of the future. I told you that Oulu will, over time, face the same problems that were already commonplace in Britain, Dutton says.
And so it really did. In 2005 and 2006, Oulu experienced a couple of rape cases that received national media attention, and the perpetrators were immigrants. However, the real turning point came only after the 2015 flood of asylum seekers.
“In fifteen years, the change has been quite substantial,” says Dutton.
In his book, Dutton compares the situation with how Finnish women and children were kidnapped for slavery in Russia. Some ended up in the Islamic canyon of the Crimea, where blond sex slaves got a good price. By 2018, the caliphate had arrived in Oulu.
Easy life creates ‘harmful mutants’
Throughout their history, Finns have learned to cope with extremely difficult conditions, but today’s easy life seems to be unbearably difficult for many.
In his book, Dutton describes an animal experiment in which a mice population that lived in mild conditions stopped breeding and were destroyed. The females became more masculine in behavior and the males feminine. The males became one after the other asexual, and females were no longer interested in mating.
People in the post-industrial era are in much the same situation: living conditions have improved dramatically, natural selection no longer culls the weak, and life is relatively stress-free. According to Dutton, this will slowly lead to people into becoming frustrated. Religiousness also decreases with the reduction of stress.
The worst problem, however, is that the cessation of Darwinian natural selection will lead to an increase in mutations harmful to the community. This is manifested, for example, by an increase in neurological disorders such as autism and schizophrenia.
Other harmful “mind mutations”, for example, are that people do not want to have children, are unsure of their own sex, or even want to destroy their own ethnic group. Often, those with such mutations seek positions of power from which they try to convince others that “Finns shouldn’t breed” or “housewives are losers,” Dutton says.
According to Dutton, such “mind mutations” are detrimental to the community as a whole, even to those who do not.
“People are used to dealing with people who behave normally,” Dutton explains.
A sick person who sends out the “wrong signals” gets the whole community sick. It’s like spending all your time with someone who is constantly talking about killing himself.
“Do not rock the boat”
Although Dutton considers Finns to be Europe’s most intelligent people, his views on us are not all flattering. Anthropologist Dutton sees Finns as overconfident and self-reliant people who tend to disregard their own culture and think too much about “what those other people think of us.”
Intelligent people are often open to new things and seek to see their culture enriched by foreigners who have come to ‘enrich’ it, relying on the newcomers to reward their good faith with gratitude. Dutton regards this kind of thinking as naive.
Another problem is that Finns have very similar personality types. In addition to a narrow personality spectrum, there are few truly intelligent, creative geniuses in Finland. So, in a way, the population is very homogeneous, so the “silent Finns” do not easily rise to dissidents who would venture to undermine the system and challenge “official truths”.
Dutton sees Finns as a nation that has always been led by others. He emphasizes the role of the Swedish-Finns in the development of the country: even the national awakening of the Finns took place under Swedish leadership. During the period of independence, the leadership of others continued to be in close contact with Germany, then during the period of “Kekkoslovakia” and finally as a member of the EU.
Too much trust in leaders is particularly bad, according to Dutton, because businessmen and politicians who rise to power are often extremely intelligent psychopaths who can manipulate their less intelligent, more emotional, or more confident fellow human beings.
However, Dutton recalls that, despite their conviviality, the Finns were ready for extreme sacrifices and brutal retaliation for their own people: in the Civil War, the nation split into two factions who regarded each other as “foreign”, even almost “foreign”, and ready to kill.
The dark future of Finns
Edward Dutton sees the future of Finland as very bleak: ethnic conflicts caused by mass immigration are deepening. The situation could even turn into a low-intensity civil war. The ethnic fragmentation of society will lead to a loss of trust, even among Finns, the collapse of the welfare state, inequality and an increase in crime.
This can also lead to the fact that as society becomes more multiethnic, even Finns become more ethnocentric, ie they start to favor their own ethnic group. Dutton predicts that the popularity of religion will grow as religion gives comfort as life becomes more and more stressful. Religion makes a difference in life, so believers on average make more children than atheists. On the other hand, high intelligence correlates negatively with the number of children.
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