• The D Quuuuuill@slrpnk.net
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      9 days ago

      huh. okay. sounds like the european-liberal position is less violent and expansionistic than i was thinking and more just… passively tolerant of paleoconservatism and fascism than what i was using as my mental model. goes to show the value of knowing your role and staying in your lane since all politics are ultimately local first.

      i’ll think about if i should edit my comment since it sounds like i’ve used evronationalism not quite right since i was thinking more about nationalist/expansionist/imperialist movements that have sought to unify the continent through violent subjugation. as it stands i think the gist of what i’m saying about historic cycles of violence still holds, but i’ve unintentionally muddied the waters of something that isn’t quite what i was thinking of. and i ABSOLUTELY don’t want to muddy the waters between pan-europeanism and the form eurocentric nationalism i’m trying to describe, which is super common in pseudointellectual discourse, to the extent that the two are even conflated in some encyclopedias and political science dictionaries despite representing diametrically opposing viewpoints on what the region of Europe even is.

      perhaps this is why i’m struggling to have a term on hand. it’s the desire of the definers we conflate them rather than see them as different