The bottom line on all of this for me: I think it was a sweet thing when human
civilization reached the stage of valuing individualism and meritocracy over
tribalism and ethnic nationalism. Would you want to be attacked, persecuted,
discriminated against or denied opportunities simply because
Let me clarify: I didn't accuse anyone of being a Nazi.
What I am saying is: all ethnic nationalist movements usually result in
violent conflict with ethnic outsiders -- that is the essential dynamic of
ethnic nationalism in general. It's difficult for me to imagine any
Euro-centric
Sean McBride wrote:
By the way, I doubt that an explosion of European ethnic nationalism is
an effective way to deal with the problems that Haim Saban and Avigdor
Lieberman pose for Europe and the United States. It's difficult to see
much of a future for ethnic nationalism as an organizing
European ethnic nationalism made a major play in the 20th century and it was
called Nazism -- correct? And that ended not so prettily?
I am trying to imagine scenarios in which a European ethnic nationalist
movement results in a positive or successful outcome -- I am having no success.
