• chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    How is that different from China, Japan, South Korea, or any of countless other countries with a dominant ethnicity and laws that try to preserve it? Heck, I would even call Quebec an ethnostate if it were independent of Canada.

    • gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de
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      7 hours ago

      the difference is whether the state consisting of mainly one ethnicity is a fact or a goal

      if it’s a fact, well then it’s just how it is but other people could potentially live in this country and have the same possibility, chances, …

      if it’s a goal, however, that means you’re not providing the same chances to everyone, but are discriminating based on ethnicity and treat people differently, which is a problem.

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      22 hours ago

      I’m not sure what laws those three specific examples have, but they allow foreigners to emigrate there and live there. An ethnostate would be violently opposed to the idea; think Stephen Miller in the US, he literally wants all non whites removed by force.

      Now I’m not expert and it’s possible that those 3 examples do still count. But unlike Israel, with the exception of China, they are not currently right now commiting genocide. So it’s still different, except for China, and people who are paying attention are also mad at China.