Whether or not an ethnostate is good depends on the ethnicity of the people of the ethnostate.

(/s, it is POV of a racist)

  • TranscendentalEmpire@lemmy.today
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    2 days ago

    considering Israel is more ethnically diverse

    Apartheid South Africa was ethnically diverse… Still an ethno-state.

    Ethno-states aren’t defined as lacking diversity, they are defined by an ethnic creating and maintaining a dominant hierarchy of that diversity.

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      not disagreeing but want to point out by that definition America is an ethnostate. Which again I’m not disagreeing with.

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            as well as most of the democrats and their refusal to enact the equal rights amendment.

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                it started inthe 70’s and passed all the ratification hurdles in 2020; that’s how long people have been trying to push for it and proves how little things change within the american system.

                in typical democrat fashion, biden made much ado about ratifying it, but without supporting it against the technical hangups so that it would die on its own and doing so paved the way for project 2025.

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                  i doubt it would have made it past the republican owned Congress that Biden experienced during his tenure. has very little to do with lack of Democrat support. this just smells like anti-Democrat whataboutism to me.

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                    democrats had majority control of the house, senate and presidency in 2020; there was nothing stopping them from pushing this through.

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          It’s because he’s attempting to utilize the fact that America was and potentially still is an ethno-state to lessen the culpability of the Israeli ethno-state.

          While modern America uses systemic racism to establish an ethnic hierarchy, unlike Israel it doesn’t expressly by law prohibit the movement or upward mobility of different ethnicities. Even if it did, that fact would not lessen the culpability of another state doing the same.

          Context and nuance is important.