Journalist and activist Petrit Sarachni in a video message for the United for Diversity Initiative calls for unity in diversity for justice, equality and freedom for all.
I think we need to emphasize them more, to build paradigms from them, or examples that will be used by the whole society on how things can really be done both better and together.
Justice for all, freedom for all, equality for all, if we start from those postulates, nationalism is not the one that says that there should be justice for all, but imagines justice only as justice to one’s own ethnic community, which is always right, and the others are the ones who are sinners, cowards or culprits for something that happens to the ethnic community. If we take freedom as a paradigm, nationalists do not see freedom as freedom for all, but rather as freedom for their own ethnic community or social group, often at the expense of someone else’s freedom.
If we look at equality, nationalists do not want equality, they think that, as Orwell says, some are more equal than others, they think their ethnic community is privileged, they do it from a position of power, not from a position of a defense from a foreign attack, but from a position from which it seeks to impose dominance over another ethnic community. And the benefits, I will return to Orwell, to his notes on nationalism, the benefits are often not personal, but the goal in itself is the power and dominance of that social group in which a certain individual sank his individuality, or became part of some collectivity.
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