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Violence is often normalized so long as those who are perpetuating it are politically aligned. For example, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk and his government genocided m
by 0x8BADF00D 6y ago
Violence is often normalized so long as those who are perpetuating it are politically aligned. For example, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk and his government genocided millions of Greeks and Armenians. Most nationalistic Turks found nothing wrong with that. In fact, Hitler admired Ataturk a lot, and used his actions as a template for his own programs.
"The minority problem in Anatolia was solved in a very simple fashion... “Only through the annihilation of the Greek and the Armenian tribes in Anatolia was the creation of a Turkish national state and the formation of an unflawed Turkish body of society within one state possible.”
Multiethnic nations don’t tend to last very long.
- microcolonel 6y agoIt's a lot harder when the people who ostensibly advocate for multiethnic nations reject the only form of multiethnic nation that seems to work: one with a strong national identity and character. Multiculturalism fails without independent nationalism of one sort or another.
- 0x8BADF00D 6y agoYes that is true, and one of the major failures of the Ottoman Empire. They couldn’t instill any sort of nationalism in Greeks and other minority subjects. The cultures were too different. Hence why the empire fell and Balkanized.
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