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Ethnostate is not a slur, it's an accurate description of a country that itself passed the Basic Law: Israel as the Nation-State of the Jewish People. (A basic
by leereeves 1y ago
Ethnostate is not a slur, it's an accurate description of a country that itself passed the Basic Law: Israel as the Nation-State of the Jewish People.
(A basic law in Israel is roughly like a constitutional amendment in the US.)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_Law%3A_Israel_as_the_Nation-State_of_the_Jewish_People https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_Law%3A_Israel_as_the_Nat...
- throwaway3060 1y agoEthnostate is an ambiguous word. Does it mean ethnically homogenous? Israel is certainly not that. Does it mean, essentially, a nation-state whose "national group" is an ethnicity? Israel is that - but so is much of Europe and some parts of Asia.
- leereeves 1y agoHow many of those have declared themselves to be the Nation-State of the X people? (at least after the 1940s)
- throwaway3060 1y agoMany former Soviet and former Yugoslavia nations did this. I ran the question by AI, and it seems to think that somewhere between 30-50 since WWII have done so explicitly.
- leereeves 1y agoSeems fair to call those ethnostates as well. Edit: I asked ChatGPT "How many nations have declared themselves to be the Nation-State of a people?" earlier and got the same answer as you. I asked again just now and got "Israel is the only nation in the world that has legally declared itself the “Nation‑State of the Jewish People.”" [I didn't specify Jewish] Can't rely on AI.
- peppers-ghost 1y agoYou should consider that AI is often wrong and stop using it as a source of truth.
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