Argals2d ago

"Healthy people cost less.
Educated people contribute more.
Housed people are more stable.

...in a healthy society there are no "undeserving".
There are just people."

Show threadepilonious

@argals I've gotten to a point where I've started calling this "Norwegian Envyposting."

Where a person, usually white, basically posts "Look at how nice white People in Norway can be when there isn't a critical mass of Not White People upsetting them?"

And the problem is... They bury the lede on whether the problem is "White people in former colonies still don't want to give up the benefits that racism got their ancestors" or the problem is "This colony let too many not white people thrive"

Mar 16 at 1:11pmWeb
Show threadepilonious1d ago

@argals @argals because let me tell you: Democrats, Republicans, Fascists, Antifascists... They ALL want what Norwegians have.

But they have VERY different ideas of how to get there and who in the current society deserves it most.

And what is so scary is that now people are saying "The quiet part out loud" on the who and the how has been very upsetting for everyone involved.

But a good start is for well-meaning liberal types to stop posting a country of homogenous white people as the ideal.

Show threadDarq1d ago

@epilonious @argals

'Where a person, usually white, basically posts "Look at how nice white People in Norway can be when there isn't a critical mass of Not White People upsetting them?"'

That's a really strange way to interpret the OOP...

"because let me tell you: Democrats, Republicans, Fascists, Antifascists... They ALL want what Norwegians have."

Not really though. Conservatives, and fascists especially, want there to be an underclass. Their ideology requires it. For society to be hierarchical, they need some people to be considered "more deserving" than others. Progressives want to dismantle those hierarchies, as the OOP said, there is no "deserving".

Show threadQybat17h ago
@Darq @epilonious @argals The success of Norway owes quite a lot to a lucrative oil industry combined with a sensible investment policy to make the most out of all that oil wealth.