Image description:
“Preaching to the mob” meme template based on SrGafo’s comic.
First panel: Person standing on a rock: “I’m in favor of a genocidal ethnostate”
Second panel: Reaction shot of a mob with an assortment pitchforks and other weapons looks really angry. Each figure is marked with the German flag emoji.
Third panel: Person standing on the rock: “For european jews”
Fourth panel: The mob looks really happy.
If I’m understanding this sentence correctly, you are saying that modern state could exist without discriminating people regarding of their ethnicity. That’s incorrect, but first we may be clarified some definitions : their is no scientific differences between nations, ethnicities or races. Those word define group of people with an arbitrary definition. However, nations is usually used for a recognized group (by law for example), and ethnicities is commonly used to define people see as “primal”.
Nations are social construct, usually based on genocide. Every modern state with a nation have disciminized, secregate or exterminate people who do not fit in the category of the national identity : gypsies, local minoritues, jews, …
Their is a specific history of nationality in germany (“volk”), however even in the most “liberal capitalist state”, the nationality is somewhat linked with a national identity, a parent, or a place of birth. The only place that came in my mind that may not have a “blood” related access to nationality is the UK. However this a rare case of multi-national state, with some other way of discriminate people based on their nationality (i.ethe Ireland)
No, I said that they state that this is what they do. I said that this was their claim. I didn’t claim that this was correct.
That’s true. But the concept doesn’t have to be scientifically valid to be a reason for discrimination or privilege. Jim Crow and the Nuremberg race laws simply referred to what was considered race science at the time.
True, but that doesn’t negate anything
that’s sure as shit not how states present themselves, though.
Let’s take Germany as an example: There is a high percentage of german mitizens of Turkish decent who have been living in Germany for generations. Many of those people have German citizenship. Sure, there’s still racist discrimination going on, but these people are german, as far as the state is concerned. It’s actually illegal in Germany to discriminate people based on ethnicity, so technically, only the passport should be taken into consideration.
The meme is mainly based on how Germany presents itself.