Using a throwaway as this story is public to my friend group and I want to keep my main Reddit account separate.
I am writing this to bring awareness to an incident that occurred to me and my wife while we were visiting Tallinn on 21.7.2024.
I think it is important to share some background information first before getting into exactly what happened. My wife and I are both in our early 30s and are from the US but live permanently in Finland. We were visiting Tallinn on an overnight trip, like we have done more than 20 times in the past few years, to have a getaway where we can relax and recharge ourselves. I am a white male and my wife is a black female (both US born citizens).
On Sunday 21.7. we were attempting to find the entrance to a speakeasy that we have been wanting to visit for many years (I don’t want to name it, they are not relevant to the story and treated us very well). This place did not have clear marking on how to get in so we were googling on our phones and attempting to call and figure out where the entrance was, to make it to our reservation on time. While looking around for the front door, we were approached by a young white guy (I assume Estonian, but it is hard to say exactly, and I only heard him speak English), who was approximately 25-30 years old, with a buzz cut hair style, who asked me (the husband) if I was interested in some information regarding race. I wasn’t sure I understood correctly so I asked him to repeat himself and then further asked if he was talking about a jog/run athletic race. He stated no, that this was about race/ethnicities. I took his piece of paper and continued searching for our entrance. This guy very clearly looked nervous in this situation, but we were preoccupied trying to get to our reservation on time. I quickly read over the piece of paper he handed me and immediately realized it was from someone who holds a racist belief of the great (white) replacement theory. The paper clearly indicates that this person believes that white people are being replaced by other races and ethnicities due to interracial relationships/marriages (like what my wife and I have). As soon as I understood what the paper meant, I immediately went to look for this guy so that I could confront him, but he was gone, out of sight, in less than 30 seconds. It was very disheartening and truly ruined the mood we had for the remainder of our quick holiday in Tallinn.
The fact that this person took several hours out of their life to type up this information, print it, cut it out, and then look for people like myself in an interracial marriage/relationship, just to try and push a racist, neo-nazi narrative has me unimaginably upset. I am not one to normally make posts such as this, but I think this is extremely important to bring to attention to as many people as possible. I hope that this is not tolerated in general in Estonia, and that this narrative can continue to be pushed out, and let these people know that there is no place for hate in your beautiful country.
I am aware that racists exist in all corners and all facets of life, but without living there and being able to make a permanent stance against them, I wanted to reach out to you all on Reddit to make this known and give others a chance to call these people out.
We are all people, and we all deserve equal respect from each other. I know that these racists, that have hatred in their hearts, will never truly disappear, but I would like to be a part of the reason they are afraid to voice their unfounded, ignorant, hate-filled messages to those around them.
This incident happened on the corner of Pärnu mnt. and Suur-Karja in Tallinn at approximately 18.00 in the afternoon.
I am not sure where this person came from or the direction they went afterwards, but hopefully this post can help to call these people out and prevent this going forward.
Thank you for your time in reading this.
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Posted by TallinnRacismThrowRA
20 Comments
Disgusting. Sorry that you had to go through this.
That is truly strange and not common at all, so sorry you experienced something like that! Rest assured that this is not a normal incident and you are safe here. If you want, you can report it to the police — there are several cameras in front of W**** S***** 🙂 and they can be easily checked. I mean it doesn’t look illegal per se, but still could be relevant. To be honest, from forensics point of view, this does not look Estonian — based on the punctuation and use of special characters (always a good giveaway!).
Hopefully the rest of your trip will be less eventful — for good cocktails, I recommend Botaanik!
This is not an “incident” – you were handed a random flyer, which you accepted and later read.
Your feelings on the topic don’t matter.
And guess what, the replacement theory **is** real, take a look what is happening in Europe, US and Canada.
It is not fully clear of the context, but from the accompaning image I assume that it is your partner, whom he blamed of replacing you.
Dipshits are everywhere.
Next time it happens, ask your partner to come closer and listen, and start asking questions from the guy like “So, you are promoting courses how to replace white people ? When is the next course ? How much does it cost ? I would want to enroll my wife to the course, lifelong learning is important. Do you have also courses how to replace cats ? I would want to replace my cat with iguana, but I am afraid to mess something up, do you have courses for that? ” … and so on.
I have still a bit of hope that if these kind of people are presented with rephrased versions of what they are peddling, they maybe will recognize the absurditiy of their ideas.
This is horrible. I have seen someone else also post about similar incident happen. These people are truly schizo with nothing better to do than obsess over someone elses relationships.
Why is the flyer in english tho? Someone went through all this to annoy foreigners here innit
Facts are racist.
Tldr, race them in Pärnu racetrack
it’s an overreaction to bad management of inmigrants by the government and bad management of external affairs, but they are also being inmature in the way of handling their own disappointment with the government; also, “not all men/women…”, “not all black people…”… yes, trends exist, averages exist, there’s a reason hdi doesn’t increase in africa, etc.
I get that the guy is a complete jerk but why let a rando stranger affect you so? You typing out a PSA and being upset is exactly why they do it – to get a reaction out of others. You can’t control others but you can control how you react and you did exactly what he wanted you to.
The name of the guy who gave you this racist paper is Indrek Kabel. This happened to my wife and I last year and I looked him up. Sorry you experienced this. Racists are the worst!
Bit fucked if you ask me
They gave you that in English? Though it be in RU or Eest?
You (sorry, your wife) got handed a piece of paper? I hope you recover from this tragedy.
I’m sorry this happened to you. What a bummer it must have been to get handed something like this.
Its horrible and should not happen, seems you are making it as the main thing while here. Cry me a river, all our acestors were slaves
This guy has a habit of playing anti-semitic and racist sound clips from his loudspeaker out in Tammsaare park. The one time I saw him, the police took him away, but unfortunately it hasn’t discouraged him. Don’t know if the police can even do anything, because probably none of this counts as incitement for hate or violence for them. Seems he’s in tourist-heavy areas, making him the “perfect” calling card for Estonia.
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Probably some racist who was looking for a white wife, but got triggered by our diversity and went on the offensive.