Jari Mäkäräinen

Jari Mäkäräinen criticized an article in Helsingin Sanomat and said he had made corrections to it. According to him, the nonfiction writer Ari Haasio and Mattila had suggested that Finnish identity was ambiguous, compared the mistrust faced by evacuees from Karelia to current fears directed at Muslims, and stated that everyone was a descendant of immigrants. Mäkäräinen wrote that migration was an old phenomenon, but migrations from different times could not be equated. He noted that the first people arrived in what is now Finland about 11,000 years ago and believed that this did not provide a basis for equating the current migration from Afghanistan or Somalia with the arrivals of earlier traders, craftsmen, or industrial founders. He described Finlayson as an actor that built factories in capital-poor Finland, brought technology, and created jobs. Mäkäräinen compared him to a Mohammed coming from Somalia, who he described as illiterate and dependent on Kela support. He believed these examples illustrated different types of migration and claimed that there were differences in education, employment, cultural distance, and criminality. He also claimed that those coming from Afghanistan were overrepresented in rape statistics. Regarding the evacuees from Karelia, Mäkäräinen wrote that they had come from within Finland, spoke Finnish, and shared key features of Finnish culture. He said they had faced mistrust and derogatory name-calling, but believed they differed from current arrivals from Afghanistan, for example, in terms of adaptation, work ethic, and use of social security. Mäkäräinen also denied the comparison made by Haasio and Mattila between 19th-century antisemitism and the Somali discussions of the 1990s. According to him, the groups were not similar, and Jews had mostly integrated well. He argued that current migrations should be evaluated based on their impacts on employment, crime, and social security. Finally, he wrote that the continuity of society required, in his opinion, the adaptation of newcomers. #maahanmuutto #suomalaisuus #kulttuuri (translated)

Jari Mäkäräinen criticized Yle for often choosing female journalists to incite moral panic, according to him. He interpreted Yle's analysis as showing that support for the National Coalition Party among women had dropped to 12 percent and that the Finns Party had surpassed this party. However, according to Mäkäräinen, women were not punishing the National Coalition Party for its policies but for its austerity measures, and men were supporting the state. Mäkäräinen believed that the decline in women's support was due to the impact of budget cuts on sectors predominantly employing women, such as social services, organizations, and public services. In his view, this did not make the cuts unjust, but rather highlighted their effects. He mentioned the Social Democratic Party, the Left Alliance, and the Centre Party as the most popular parties among women and claimed that the left proposed tax increases amounting to nine billion euros. According to Mäkäräinen, the costs of these increases would fall on men who work overtime, start businesses, and pay progressive taxes. Mäkäräinen assessed that the issue for the National Coalition Party was its attempt to soften difficult decisions, while the Finns Party spoke about the same issues more directly. He argued that men were underrepresented in the care sector and overrepresented in dangerous jobs, entrepreneurship, and at the high end of the tax revenue spectrum. In his opinion, the National Coalition Party should maintain its stance even if it lost some female support, as this could help it win over voters who support the sustainability of the state. https://t.co/DfwLyPN03s #Politiikka #NaistenOikeudet #Taloustieto (translated)

Jari Mäkäräinen quoted Yle's description, which stated that the True Finns had made breakaways in the government after the election defeat and had been in the public eye due to racism scandals. He claimed that people wanted the current economic and immigration policies to continue to be stricter than before. https://t.co/az4oeqcJn3 #politiikka #maahanmuutto #rasismi (translated)

Jari Mäkäräinen criticized the publication and claimed that Frans was the mother of her child, not the father. He argued that performing the role does not change this, and said that while it is acceptable for a person to live in their imaginary world, the country’s largest newspaper should not participate in it. https://t.co/eEpbzocFo8 #journalismi #oikeus #mielenterveys (translated)

Jari Mäkäräinen wrote that, according to him, the climate did not force girls into marriage or anything similar. He blamed parents and culture for this and described them in a strongly derogatory manner. https://t.co/qAyDBVnGOj #naistenoikeudet #perheväkivalta #kulttuuri (translated)

Jari Mäkäräinen criticized Yle for what he perceived as giving Timo R. Stewart, whom he describes as a Hamas activist, an unchallenged platform to present his book. According to Mäkäräinen, the article adopted Stewart's view regarding the destruction of Gaza, genocide, and Finland's responsibility due to trade with Israel, without hearing the opposing side. Mäkäräinen emphasized that, in his opinion, genocide does not equate to heavy war. He wrote that the International Court of Justice had not ruled on the case against Israel and that interim measures were not a judgment. In his view, civilian casualties can occur in urban warfare where Hamas places rockets, command centers, and tunnels among civilians without the intent of destroying the group. He compared this to the battles of Mosul, Raqqa, and Fallujah, claiming that Stewart began using the term genocide after Israel succeeded in its war against Hamas. According to Mäkäräinen, the Yle article also lacked the starting point of the war: the attack on October 7, in which he claims over 1,200 people died, and which involved rapes and kidnappings. He wrote that Hamas aims for the end of Israel instead of a Palestinian state. He criticized the figures presented by the Palestinian Ministry of Health in the article—over 21,600 by December 2023 and over 1,400 after ceasefires—and claimed that the ministry was subordinate to Hamas and that its figures did not differentiate between fighters and civilians. In his view, the article also lacked Israel's perspective that a significant portion of the dead were fighters. Regarding the two-state model, Mäkäräinen wrote that its failure was not solely due to Israel. He claimed that Hamas had rejected the model multiple times and that the Palestinian Authority had turned down offers, such as at Camp David in 2000 and Annapolis in 2008. He added that according to polls, the majority of both Palestinians and Israelis had abandoned the model. He described the cessation of support for UNRWA as a reaction to an organization that, according to him, had ample evidence of connections between its facilities and personnel to Hamas. Mäkäräinen believed that Yle, as a publicly funded media, should not advertise a single essayist as an expert. According to him, the article could have included opposing researchers, Israel's official stance, or addressed Hamas's responsibility for hostages and the use of civilians as shields. He concluded by asking why this had not been done. https://t.co/sHriNitmMo #Gaza #Israel #Hamas (translated)

Jari Mäkäräinen criticized Timo R. Stewart's column, stating that Stewart had already decided in advance that those who disagree are stupid and racist. According to Mäkäräinen, Stewart defined racism as evaluating individuals based on their ethnic or religious background and concluded that such individuals had nothing useful to say about international politics. Mäkäräinen mentioned that the column likened the observation of group differences to climate denialism, young Earth creationism, vaccine resistance, and reptilians. He also claimed that it had asserted that the Finnish media, researchers, and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs had adopted their Middle Eastern stance from Hamas. Mäkäräinen argued that the claim about the absence of pure races did not refute the phenomena indicated by statistics, attitude surveys, and street views. He highlighted religion, cousin marriages, concepts of honor, fertility, and renouncement of religion, adding that the common goals of Muslims could be examined from their own polls. According to Mäkäräinen, explaining unpleasant phenomena solely with prejudices and labeling dissenters as racists was essentialism. He criticized a sense of moral superiority and argued that it led to a lack of fact-checking, distinguishing between immigrant groups, or noticing that one's own media repeated Hamas's casualty figures. He believed that placing morality above observations weakened empathy. https://t.co/dglVfEEw2o #rasismi #media #ilmasto (translated)

Tämähän on aivan sekaisin. Fatahia tai Hamasiako olisi pitänyt käydä tapaamassa kun ostetaan israelilaisia puolustustarvikkeita?! En ihmettele että teki paskoja kauppoja saksalaisten kanssa. Ja mitä kaikkea hänestä Oulussa puhutaan politiikan ulkopuolisiin asioihin liittyen. #Politiikka #Israeli #Oulu

Kahdelle vasemmistolaiselle kanavalle ei ole tilaa, en ymmärrä miksi maikkari yrittää pärjätä Ylen metodein. Vai ovatko mediatoimistot pelotelleet mainostajat niin varovaisiksi että minkäänlainen riskinotto oikeistolaisemman median kanssa ei ole mahdollista. 7 vuotta, 117 miljoonan euron tappiot – Nyt puhuu toimitusjohtaja https://t.co/63UJ4QoLnX #media #politiikka #talous

"Äärioikeisto" ei saa kannattaa jääkiekkojoukkueita? Alkaa olla melko erikoista touhua poliisilta ja Yleltä. https://t.co/TAlewxn0QV #poliisi #jääkiekko #äärioikeisto

On tämä uskomatonta. Hamasin sanomat jatkaa valehtelua Gazassa muka tapahtuneesta kansanmurhasta. Nyt näytelmän varjolla. Kansanmurha kyllä yritettiin tehdä, lokakuun 7. 2023. Sitä yrittivät gazalaiset Israelissa. Siitä meidän kaikkien halutaan katsovan pois ja unohtavan tämän järkyttävän rikoksen ihmiskuntaa kohtaan uhrit ja heidän läheisensä. Palestiinalaissyndrooma tulisi saada tautiluetteloon. Aikalaishulluutta toki esiintyy aina. #Gazaa #Hamas #Kansanmurha

On nää sekaisin. Puolustusministeri käy maassa, jonka kanssa teemme paljon puolustusalan yhteistyötä ja kauppaa - ja tämä tollo esittää epäluottamuslausetta. Vasemmiston palestiinasyndrooma tulisi saada diagnoosiluetteloon. https://t.co/JJRsADZCBH #puolustus #yhteistyö #poliikka

Hamasin sanomat suorittaa taas. Razmyariin ollaan hyvästä syystä kohdistettu kysymyksiä mahdollisista lojaliteettiongelmista kaksoiskansalaisuuden ja islamin takia. Mitä vihapuhetta se muka on? Vieläpä ”poikkeuksellisen rajua”!? Täytyy muistaa, että ministerinä Razmyar voisi saada käyttöönsä maan turvallisuuden kannalta kriittistä tietoa. Tässä yhteydessä hänen taustallaan on merkitystä. #politiikka #kaksoiskansalaisuus #turvallisuus

Sanoisin, että törkeästi käyttäytyneen virkamiehen nimi tiskiin tai koko väite on poliittista paskapuhetta. Muutenkin erikoinen käsitys maailmasta. Meillä ei ole koskaan ollut näin paljon naisia politiikan, virkamiehistön ja liike-elämän huipulla tai hyvillä paikoilla ja tämä se vaan soittaa samaa laulua, jossa "pukumiehet" päättävät ja sortavat naisia. https://t.co/mu3RuhwLEy #politiikka #naistenoikeudet #yhtäläisetmahdollisuudet

Tämä ihminen on 71-vuotias Venäjän korkeimmalla ulkomaalaiselle annettavalla kunniamerkillä palkittu kaasuputkimies. Ja Suomen eduskuntaan pitäisi taas päästä. Äänestämään rajaturvallisuuslakia vastaan? Ajamaan kenen etua? #Suomi #Politiikka #Kunnioitus

Hän oli siis vuonna 2023 lähtenyt parantumattomasti sairaana Yhdysvalloista Suomeen ilmaisen hoidon toivossa. Saanut sitten vuonna 2024 kielteisen turvapaikkapäätöksen. Löytänyt vuonna 2025 vaimon Pride-piireistä, miksi? Vastustanut samana vuonna viranomaisia väkivaltaisesti kun maasta poistaminen oli muuttunut ihan konkreettiseksi poistamiseksi. Nyt sitten itkee lehdissä kun päätös pysyy voimassa ihan lainvoimaisesti. Näyttää myös siltä, että vaimo ei jostain syystä haluakaan muuttaa miehensä mukana Yhdysvaltoihin. Tällaisen henkilön sairaalahoito maksaa muuten helposti satoja tuhansia euroja vuodessa. Hamasin sanomat toki taas Suomea hyväksikäyttävän ulkomaalaisen puolella. https://t.co/TR1tc3YIIC #turvapaikka #terveydenhuolto #maahanmuutto

Ensinnäkin, Gazassa ei ole tapahtunut tai tapahtumassa kansanmurhaa. (Gazalaiset tosin yrittivät sellaista Israelissa pahimmissa pogromeissa sitten toisen maailmansodan.) Toiseksi, suomalaiset eivät ole "mukana" tässä kuvitellussa kansanmurhassa mitenkään. Kolmanneksi, miksi Hesari antaa jatkuvasti näiden ikään kuin uskonnollisella kiihkolla Hamasin terroristien puolesta Israelia vastaan valehtelevien ihmisten olla jatkuvasti levittämässä propagandaansa? Miksi Hamasin asia on kaiken journalistisen arvioimisen ulkopuolella? https://t.co/ZJDC673Syr #Gazaa #kansanmurha #journalismi