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mempko • today at 2:00 AM • 3 replies • view on HN

An ethno state is a stupid backwards idea.

EDIT: how is anyone downvoting thos. Who thinks it's a good idea?


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jcomp • today at 3:44 AM

Didn't downvote but I'll bite: Haven't states largely always been ethno-states, and isn't "ethno-state bad" a relatively modern and potentially as-yet unproven argument in the big scheme of things?

It's clearly bad to specifically re-engineer the ethnic composition of an existing state to create one, particularly violently, but I don't know that it necessarily follows that a naturally occurring ethno-state is conceptually abhorrent as you seem to be suggesting. Japan is very much such a state - is Japan bad for existing?

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expedition32 • today at 5:34 AM

Orthodox Jews are against marrying non Jews. Is this not known?

They do not share Western social values.

hactually • today at 3:41 AM

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