| > That's all academic. Current nationalists base their 'nation' on skin color and religion They do? > You can read people advocating it in HN, just like you can read many attempts to whitewash it. > if you accept the nationalist argument that 'people on my side have rights and those on the other don't' > We've had enough slavery, segregation, Holocausts, Tutsi massacres, Milosovic's, ISIS's, oppression of women, Nazis, etc, etc. to know how it turns out; we don't need to try again and hope it's different this time. (I might as well excerpt your entire post, it is the perfect embodiment of my confusion on this topic. As are the rising downvotes, arguably proving my point and censoring my voice, as I will now have to leave this tab open and wait to post my sincere rebuttal later. Freedom of speech is a great principle until it disagrees with your ideas I guess.) I gave you a definition of nationalism from the dictionary, I will ask you once again: what definition are you using for the word nationalism? Going further, what is the origin of the various extreme beliefs & hatred you hold? Where did you learn these ideas? |