Friday nights you know...Hrafn wrote:Holy s**t, I need a trébuchet to get through this wall of text
Some quite interesting insights there. Had no idea about the Sami gender discrimination, although their way of voting is certainly reminiscent of some people's idea about a modern aristocracy.Hrafn wrote:The problem with the Sami started when the government decided to equate sami-ness with reindeer-herding. Most sami people didn't, and still don't, have anything to do with reindeer-herding. The majority subsisted on fishing, hunting and even farming. But these non-reindeer-herding sami had their land rights expropriated and given over to the reindeer herders, just like a lot of Jamtish farmers had their farms expropriated for the same purpose. The members of the "Sami villages" have privileges over fishing and hunting rights that even non-reindeer-herding sami don't have. Furthermore, most reindeer-herders don't even speak a word of sami and probably have less sami blood than the average Swede up here.
In fact, the biggest party in the Sami Thing are opposed to the reindeer-industry as it currently exists. They want to open up the Sami villages to all sami, have "one person, one vote" (as opposed to now, when you get a vote per head of reindeer you own, unless you're a woman - then your reindeer count toward your male care-takers votes instead, really enlightened eh?), and distribute hunting and fishing rights equally.
I have no problem with the sami having special land rights as long as it's proportional, i.e. if 10% of the population in a particular hunting zone are sami, then 10% of the hunting rights should be reserved for them. Fair.
Think I meant biocentrism. Not quite compatible with the belief that everything are made to serve man all the time. Which is basically what all modern western ideologies are all about.Hrafn wrote:Bah! If you've accepted that nothing's ever going to change, you might as well be a raving extremist. It's much more fun!
Edit: did you just compare economic theories to geocentrism? The belief that the sun circles the earth?
MichaelReilly wrote:That was an impressive thousand-word discussion about politics which didn't touch on economics once.
Economics for me is the crux of all politics. If I don't know your economic stance, I can never truly know what your beliefs are.
Oh ok, that makes more senseElf wrote:Think I meant biocentrism. Not quite compatible with the belief that everything are made to serve man all the time. Which is basically what all modern western ideologies are all about.Hrafn wrote:Edit: did you just compare economic theories to geocentrism? The belief that the sun circles the earth?
hts wrote:
Oct 11, 2016
May 22, 2018
God damn. I've come a long way.
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