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Gretas Thunberg is on the warpath against an extension of an oil refinery in Lysekil, my place of birth, demanding the government stop the extension. Lysekil is a working class town, a majority of the people I grew up with.. 1/4 https://www.aftonbladet.se/a/na5zLJ ">https://www.aftonbladet.se/a/na5zLJ&...

..are dependent on this refinery & the city would die without it. It& #39;s a sleepy coastal town, a beautiful, ordinary place & right now activists from Greenpeace & Extinction Rebellion are trying to kill it off, blocking the entrance 2 the place of work for decent, ordinary ppl 2/4

I can& #39;t tell you how provoked I get when privileged middle- 6 upper class folks from the big city tell others how to live & why our lives don& #39;t matter. On of my closest friends has worked at Preem Refinery since he was 16, he has no formal education but he has created.. 3/4

..a great life for his family in this town that he (and I) love. Who is Greta and her minions to say that these towns should die off? Just because they& #39;ve never had to work hard at a factory & depend on it for a living? This is not activism, it is blind privilege