POL101Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Liberal Democracy, Haganah, Infinite Regress
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Relationship b/w the rights we enjoy in a liberal democratic space, and genocide, murder, disposition. Contingent- tend to be there, or always needs to be there. A nation state is entity where the nation and the state, overlaps, or when the state is responsible to and answers to and is controlled by one nation. Europe, turkey, middle east, asian, arch of expulsion started with balkan war and ended with the partition in india, and foundation of state in israel. Long arch wear expulsion occurred and was a noble feature of politics. Not viewed as fundamentally illegitimate, still occurs though. Anytime you speak of genocide, or expulsion, number becomes highly politicized because certain groups like victims, those who were expelled want to exaggerate number, those you expelled others want to decrease the number. 6 million is the golden number, then you are creating an equivalence of suffering of your group and holocaust.
