• BartsBigBugBag@lemmy.tf
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      9 months ago

      Ethnostates are inherently bad. You cannot have a state for a single ethnicity or religion and not have it descend into apartheid or worse. Zionism is inherently bad.

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          9 months ago

          You would feel differently if you and your family were forcibly evicted from your land and told it belonged to others now.

          Especially if you and your family had absolutely no connection to an event like the Holocaust. Which is the situation that the Palestinians experienced - last I checked it was Germans, not Arabs, who committed the Holocaust. And yet, somehow, no German land was converted into a new state.

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            Um, kind of, Prussia and Silesia have been converted from German land to Polish land, just so that Poland could move all their people from east Poland to west Poland and give east Polish lands to the USSR (and now Ukraine).

            So the Germans lost that land, but the Jews didn’t get it. The English instead gave them their Palestine.

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              9 months ago

              Dude, that was Russia doing that. Russia controlled that entire region until 1990.

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          9 months ago

          My friend, more groups were killed than just Jewish peoples in the Holocaust. Are you advocating for a state for Roma people also? Where should we get that state to give to them? There is and has been no such thing as “open” land for centuries, since the completion of the partitioning of the world between imperialist states in the previous centuries. So, by advocating for state creation, you are inherently advocating for dispossession and expulsion of those who live in that area.

          What about the indigenous Americans whom have suffered the worst known genocide in human history, should we pick a place in Europe and give them a country there by kicking out the historic residents of that region? Why is granting a people statehood your only perceived method of preventing violence?

          How and where can you set up this mythical state without inherently requiring the kinds of oppressions and violence we see in Israel?

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            9 months ago

            I demand a gay state only for LGBT+ people, especially because after the war we were left in the camps still.

            Shit we also need a state just for the leftists who were locked up.

            And a 3rd for the queer leftists.

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      9 months ago

      The belief that any group of people are entitled to live anywhere because of their religion (religious nationalism) is bad.