• raubarno@lemmy.mlEnglish
    42·
    2 years 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.

    • teemukiEnglish
      3·
      2 years ago

      Torvalds is Finnish by nationality, he just speaks Swedish as his mother tongue. That’s not uncommon in Finland.

      • 🇪🇺 Yet Another Owl 🕊️@mastodon.social
        2·
        2 years ago

        @teemuki @raubarno

        In Finland they have bilingual street signs. Where the majority is Finnish-speaking, the signs are in Finnish first and then in Swedish. And in places where the majority is Swedish-speaking they have signs in Swedish first, then in Finnish.

        To the best of my understanding cultural “!identity” is nort relevant at all there, and nobody really cares.

    • raubarno@lemmy.mlEnglish
      21·
      2 years ago
      1. Finns are arch enemies of communists. Show a finnish guy a hammer and sickle, and he’ll … you.
      • teemukiEnglish
        1·
        2 years 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.

      • teemukiEnglish
        1·
        2 years ago

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