• raubarno@lemmy.mlEnglish
    12·
    1 year ago
    1. He’s not Finnish, he’s a Swede from Finland. Please attribute the nationality correctly.
    2. He’s not defending communists. He just points out that ‘woke’ is a word used in a spiritual context, which doesn’t make sense with communism. The header of this thread is a clickbait. Read the article again.

    EDIT: He’s actually a Swedish-speaking Finnish guy, mea culpa.

    • raubarno@lemmy.mlEnglish
      01·
      1 year ago
      1. Finns are arch enemies of communists. Show a finnish guy a hammer and sickle, and he’ll … you.
      • teemuki@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        0·
        1 year ago

        I’m sorry but that’s just nonsense. Finland had one of the strongest communist movements in Western Europe during the cold war. Large swaths of Finns happily voted for communists in elections for decades.

      • teemuki@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        0·
        1 year ago

        I might add that Linus’ father Nils Torvalds was a card carrying member of the Finnish Communist Party in the 1970s.