The Ottoman millet system remains one of the best ways to organize a genuinely plural society, arguably superior to the liberal solutionpic.twitter.com/1FPaI1vbGI
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You would like the religious authorities in whichever group I was born into to have absolute power over me and have a hierarchy of rights between different religious groups? As superior to liberal societies for pluralism???
Not the religious authorities. But we could have a “Red Corp” & a “Blue Corp” set up as “lifestyle corporations” with nation-wide reach & some delegated powers for contentious items: abortion, taxation, education, etc. Different laws for diff lifestyles, as opposed to geography.
Zeynep I respect your work but you seem completely unaware how the 19th century framework of liberal nationalism created the most violent logic of exclusion, civil war, and persecution that history has to offer - culminating in the Holocaust. And not by coincidence
Can a liberal society after it has executed its logic of uniformity to the end and eliminated every difference then live with peace between its members? Yes, but you have to look to the past from where it comes and the future (that state of uniformity never lasts..)
This reads like a guy who read one superficially positive article on the ottoman empire millet system and put no thought into his rosy reading of it. It’s absurd.
I screenshot one unusually negative article
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