Yeah, I think that's a point frequently missed by Very Smart leftier types trying to argue with nativists.
The point isn't to have a consistent ideology, and the beliefs/bugbears are mostly irrelevant. The point is to maintain your local competitive advantage.
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I tend to get extremely leery about "white privilege" debates:
1: "white" is a nativist-racist construct with no good basis, so it's basically carrying water.
2: I would be trilingual & bicultural from birth if not for cultural destruction my grandparents have living memory of.
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It still does. Sami rights were still ridiculed until the 80s, but the current govt. is trying to roll back Sami rights. Pretty successfully, since they are deferred from parliament.
Liberalism? After the oil boom. Socially conservative worker solidarity was norm post-WW2.
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It's almost exactly the same in contemporary Norway.
Pre-80s was preachy, conservative "educating" of Sami people. But those were different times in more ways.
Now, it's people who think native rights are "anticompetitive" who are the worst - i.e. libertarians and neolibs.
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The last time I was in Norway, I had a rare case of agetting angry at my grandmother on the Norwegian side (who is generally a very excellent person) for asserting Palestinians are "not angels".
Fairly sure she picked this up in church. Similar attitudes towards Sami there.
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Same conversation, I was condemning the barbaric behavior of the IDF in shooting random protesters & medics.
Yeah, there are Palestinian terrorists. Not angels. I agree. That doesn't justify Israel's fascistic ethnostate, or wanton murder.
This was the context of my anger.
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It's not the obvious truth that Palestinians (or Sami) are human, and flawed, sometimes violent, but using this to justify violence and oppression.
I mostly consider that sort of hand-waving as being beneath my grandmother. But then, she is also no angel... :P