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Israel-Gaza Megathread #3
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I think the poorly defined and murky phrase "people group" is doing a lot of heavy lifting there. This position makes you a firm supporter of Kurdish nationalism and Catalan separatism, but it unfortunately doesn't actually do anything to give you the solid ground you need to actually condemn white nationalists. What exactly is it that makes Jews a "people group" worthy of their own apartheid regime and ethnostate? I don't think you've defined that clearly enough to avoid also endorsing white nationalism, and you have also opened yourself up to a bunch of really dumb borderline questions like whether the Scots-Irish population in the USA deserves their own homeland.
My rule is any group of people that constitutes a majority in a defined geographical area of a city or larger should be able to form their own state if they want to. The lines that separate us are arbitrary and malleable, if people choose to care about being Hispanic or Saxon or Catalan or Appalachians then so be it.
I'm not particularly invested in condemning white nationalism. I don't support it on an object level, but I don't see it as being somehow illegitimate for a country to decide its own immigration policy or whatever.
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I think the poorly defined and murky phrase "people group" is doing a lot of heavy lifting there. This position makes you a firm supporter of Kurdish nationalism and Catalan separatism, but it unfortunately doesn't actually do anything to give you the solid ground you need to actually condemn white nationalists. What exactly is it that makes Jews a "people group" worthy of their own apartheid regime and ethnostate? I don't think you've defined that clearly enough to avoid also endorsing white nationalism, and you have also opened yourself up to a bunch of really dumb borderline questions like whether the Scots-Irish population in the USA deserves their own homeland.
My rule is any group of people that constitutes a majority in a defined geographical area of a city or larger should be able to form their own state if they want to. The lines that separate us are arbitrary and malleable, if people choose to care about being Hispanic or Saxon or Catalan or Appalachians then so be it.
I'm not particularly invested in condemning white nationalism. I don't support it on an object level, but I don't see it as being somehow illegitimate for a country to decide its own immigration policy or whatever.
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