Comment, Hamarøy | When the Taliban and Norway have better talks, there is great cause for concern!
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Racists, activists, bufolk and whites.
We often talk about ethnic groups fighting each other in countries we do not want to compare ourselves with. Now we need look no further than the new Hamarøy municipality.
The debate climate in the new Hamarøy has become an amusing and raucous nonsense, which actually supports Fred-Eddy Dahlberg’s point about a new boundary setting.
The core of the conflict is swept under the rug, while the witch hunt and the littering are polished and put on display for the entertainment of others.
It must be difficult to be a resident of the new Hamarøy when Presteidbrua, the municipality’s response to Gazastripa, has been distinguished between wrong and right. The population is set against each other and the concepts of reconciliation and humanity have disappeared from the vocabulary.
The debate in the comments section about the citizens’ initiative does not contribute to anything other than associations to a “good” episode of The Muppet Show.
Because when characteristics, suspicion, personal attacks and racist accusations come to the fore, you lose control of the big questions. In any case, one does not find solutions or a common understanding of how to live together.
When the discussion has now become a debate about power and whether it is common is undesirable in the municipality, in principle a new boundary setting in the new Hamarøy municipality has already been set.
The Sami and non-Sami villages in the new Hamarøy municipality want essentially the same thing – to create a good and sustainable municipality for both history bearers. So why does it cut, and where on the road did you lose respect for each other?
– If we can not cooperate, why should we hang in there if there is only unrest and little community, Dahlberg asks, according to NRK Sápmi.
Does he have a point? When the quarrel becomes too great and the rhetoric too distasteful, the message to Dahlberg and the 479 inhabitants who have signed the proposal is also reinforced:
The basis for finding together disappears and the relationship between people who will live in the same society is destroyed.
The discussion about the citizens’ proposal has degenerated into becoming inflamed that residents now go on eggshells. The proposal to repeal the municipal merger of Hamarøy and Tysfjord’s west side, has created such strong reactions that several of the inhabitants of the municipality do not dare or dare to appear in the media – for fear of being put on the bench for racism.
Is this really how we want to train the next generation to resolve disagreements?
When the Taliban and Norway have better talks with each other than they can in the new Hamarøy municipality, there is great cause for concern.
Whatever the outcome: A job must be done to establish a debate climate that can withstand the light of day.