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Dojan@pawb.social 19 hours agoI don’t like the term succeed. It’s not a case of once you have it you have it. You have to keep working for it to keep it.
As it stands, we’ve not had a majority-left government in ages, our welfare is being sold off to private interests, and the gaps between classes are widening. The younger generation in particular has been susceptible to the influence of American right-wing media and as such we’re seeing an increased amount of religious extremism and right wing thinking.
Hell, the xenophobic lobbying has lead to the Nazi party having a majority seat in parliament.
Understanding of intersectionality is a useful tool regardless of the size or homogeneity of the population.
Samskara@sh.itjust.works 19 hours ago
Grew because the population became less homogenous.
Despite that Sweden and the Nordics are still leading in women’s equality. Have they been rolled back in a significant way over the last two decades?
Intersectionality is useful for analysis. As an activist method in practice it leads to alienating white men, oppression Olympics, purity testing, division.
Dojan@pawb.social 18 hours ago
I’d argue that it’s more complicated than that. It’s a factor, but we don’t exactly have a great track record of treating non-Swedes that well. We were quite cosy with the German nazis prior to and during WWII, and were enthusiastic about racial biology. Note how poorly we’ve historically treated the native Sami population.
We also still have a lot of systemic problems with e.g. “women’s professions” like nursing, cleaning, etc. not being valued fairly. Women’s health problems aren’t taken as seriously either.
Further, the right-block are campaigning to restrict rights overall. It’s not just the nazis but the Christ-democrats as well. We’re talking restricted abortion rights, there’s arguments against LGBTQ+ people, and so on.
The homogeneity was a helpful factor in establishing a more egalitarian system, but it’s not truly egalitarian, and there are still unequalities endemic in our society.
I admit I have a bit of a knee-jerk reaction whenever Sweden or Scandinavia is mentioned, because we’re so often, unfairly, painted as some kind of nigh utopia, where people are equal, education and healthcare is easily accessed, etc. etc. but we have problems. I grew up in poverty, to an abusive single mother. I’ve seen some low points of Swedish society and I resent people glossing over their existence.
fiat_lux@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
Thanks for being real about it. As a non-Swedish-speaker living outside Scandinavia, I could only suspect that the frequent lionizing of Scandinavia (and dismissal of counterpoints with the magic word “homogenous”) was another flavor of white supremacy. I’m sorry that you’re dealing with exactly the same bullshit as many other places though.
Dojan@pawb.social 16 hours ago
Yeah, it is a problem.
Like the most recent example I can think of is literally from yesterday. Used to be that healthcare and schooling was generally owned by the state, but over the past few decades with the right-wingers at the helm privatisation has grown and we now have significant problems with private companies exploiting public resources for financial gain.
Thus we have people arguing that we should ban operating a company for profit in the welfare sector. So this Centre party leader demands that welfare should be profitable, while owning several private healthcare companies. That’s “jäv”, a conflict of interest, but this kind of bullshit is common nowadays.
There are memes about it, every time a person in the Sweden Democrats get caught being a total nazi, there’s another “individual rotten egg” because that’s literally the entire party.
We’ve had some great things going for us. We really went all in on workers rights back when the military came in and shot workers demonstrating for their rights., but we’ve got problems too. The most recent time a eugenics law was abolished here was in 2013.
Chat Control was originally proposed by a Swedish social democrat.
I’m happy to live here, but we’re not some utopia.