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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Yeah. The political structures on both sides would need to be totally obliterated, or reforged into something more unified.
Under the gun, Palestinian politics are just as defined by opposition to Israel as Israeli politics are by ethnonationalism.
I'm not ignorant of the Six-Day War. I know you can't just disarm Israel without millions of Israelis getting boned pretty much overnight. The Palestinians are not the threat.
Still, you can't maintain what the Israeli state is doing to the Palestinians. It is beyond unjust.