Tommi Laitio, the city’s executive director for culture and leisure, explained that the building and its expansive technological offerings were partly intended as a bulwark against populism. In 2015, the right-wing, populist Finns Party joined a coalition government. Jussi Halla-aho, the party’s leader, once argued that solving Greece’s debt crisis would require a military junta, and he has linked Islam to pedophilia.
“This is very much a political project,” Mr. Laitio said, arguing that threats to democracy across the globe in recent years could be explained partly by people’s uncertainty about technological advances.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/06/arts ... -oodi.html
Enpä olisi uskonut, että Helsinkiin rakennetaan kirjasto Jussi Halla-ahon kunniaksi.
