You’re framing an ethno-supremacist ideology that was created at the same time that other very hateful ethno-supremacist ideologies were created and trying to say it isn’t inherently hateful.
That’s exactly why I’m comparing it with every other balkan nationalism of the time. Take Greek or Bulgarian or Italian or Hungrian or Turkish or any other nationalism that was being conceived in, well, the age of nationalism, in the end of the 19th century, and they all share the same ethno-supremacist characteristics.
That’s usually what ethnonationalism means in the New World, where there are things like white nationalism etc. In the Old World, ethno-nationalism is a diverse set of ideologies. And the idea of “blood purity” is also not expressed as that radical or controversial in the many many states that follow a jus sanguinis system.
There is absolutely there a structure that makes it extremely easy to slide into hateful politics. Which is why I’m not defending ethno-nationalism, in fact I agree that it is an aberration that should be abolished. I am just pointing out that there is nothing particularly unique about jewish ethno-nationalism. It is currently undergoing a radical phase, but again that’s not historically unique to it. That’s literally how the Turks ended up genociding the Armenians. I am not normalizing or excusing, merely de-exceptionalizing. Nothing special about zionism. Just another shitty ethno-nationalism, same shit we’ve seen many times over.
Sorry, I also didn’t know I was responding to someone different in my prior comment and think we’re in agreement. There’s nothing inherently unique about Jewish ethno-nationalism.
That’s exactly why I’m comparing it with every other balkan nationalism of the time. Take Greek or Bulgarian or Italian or Hungrian or Turkish or any other nationalism that was being conceived in, well, the age of nationalism, in the end of the 19th century, and they all share the same ethno-supremacist characteristics.
Xenophobia is hateful. Ethno-nationalism is xenophobic and about blood purity.
That’s usually what ethnonationalism means in the New World, where there are things like white nationalism etc. In the Old World, ethno-nationalism is a diverse set of ideologies. And the idea of “blood purity” is also not expressed as that radical or controversial in the many many states that follow a jus sanguinis system.
There is absolutely there a structure that makes it extremely easy to slide into hateful politics. Which is why I’m not defending ethno-nationalism, in fact I agree that it is an aberration that should be abolished. I am just pointing out that there is nothing particularly unique about jewish ethno-nationalism. It is currently undergoing a radical phase, but again that’s not historically unique to it. That’s literally how the Turks ended up genociding the Armenians. I am not normalizing or excusing, merely de-exceptionalizing. Nothing special about zionism. Just another shitty ethno-nationalism, same shit we’ve seen many times over.
Sorry, I also didn’t know I was responding to someone different in my prior comment and think we’re in agreement. There’s nothing inherently unique about Jewish ethno-nationalism.