If only I had a dollar for every time Persuasion wrote an essay about how Democracy is in Danger Because People I Don't Like Were Elected and Pursue Policies I Don't Favor
If only I had a dollar for every time Persuasion wrote an essay about how Democracy is in Danger Because People I Don't Like Were Elected and Pursue Policies I Don't Favor
As I just spelled out, actual opposition to democracy is not the criteria Persuasion uses for deeming someone "anti-democracy." The fact that they might occasionally be incidentally correct by other more reasonable standards is neither here nor there.
My comment was on @Unsents comment. He doesn't discuss Israel, but regarding Israel, a) I'm not sure what's meant by an "ethnocracy" and b) I don't know why Israel wouldn't be considered a democracy, given that all citizens get to vote and hold office and are equally protected in their civil rights. It would be great if more Mid-eastern countries had that; I'd happily give up on Israel's distinction.
Ethnocracy = special rights for members of certain ethnic group, and that one's opinions and arguments are not individual since the idea is that a whole ethnos is supposed to think the same
Israel does not have equal rights for all citizens, as in the case of many Israeli Arabs.
Democracy is much more than voting. The core of democracy is conversation. It is very hard to participate in conversation and speeches in Israel as a Palestinian.
Israel is the state of the Jewish people, yes. That doesn't prevent its non-Jewish citizens from enjoying full rights. And what in the world does this have to do with everyone thinking the same?! I find it hard to believe that that's part of the definition, and in fact neither of the definitions at dictionary.com mention anything like that (as it happens, neither of them remotely describes Israel, either).
Please list the rights that Arab citizens do not have and Jewish citizens do.
I don't know what "the core of democracy is conversation" means, but whatever it means, Israeli Arabs have representation in the Knesset and in all the professions (excepting, I suppose, the rabbinate).
Why are you writing such things when there is enough evidence that Israel as a state is not committed to securing all rights for all of its citizens?
You are behaving either as an ignorant person or someone who has not followed the news for the last several years, or as a person who knows the situation but still ignores due to stupid and tribalist behaviours.
If only I had a dollar for every time Persuasion wrote an essay about how Democracy is in Danger Because People I Don't Like Were Elected and Pursue Policies I Don't Favor
You do realise that politicians and parties who are against democracy and promote ethnocracy can also get elected?
As I just spelled out, actual opposition to democracy is not the criteria Persuasion uses for deeming someone "anti-democracy." The fact that they might occasionally be incidentally correct by other more reasonable standards is neither here nor there.
I am not sure what you mean. If one is against democracy it means that one is anti-democratic
Agreed. Also, when these things happen to left-wing governments (like Peru, from what I read), it's somehow never a sign of any larger trend.
Agree on what? Israel is on the way of becoming an ethnocracy. That means that the argument of Israel as the only democracy in the Middle East is lost
My comment was on @Unsents comment. He doesn't discuss Israel, but regarding Israel, a) I'm not sure what's meant by an "ethnocracy" and b) I don't know why Israel wouldn't be considered a democracy, given that all citizens get to vote and hold office and are equally protected in their civil rights. It would be great if more Mid-eastern countries had that; I'd happily give up on Israel's distinction.
Ethnocracy = special rights for members of certain ethnic group, and that one's opinions and arguments are not individual since the idea is that a whole ethnos is supposed to think the same
Israel does not have equal rights for all citizens, as in the case of many Israeli Arabs.
Democracy is much more than voting. The core of democracy is conversation. It is very hard to participate in conversation and speeches in Israel as a Palestinian.
Israel is the state of the Jewish people, yes. That doesn't prevent its non-Jewish citizens from enjoying full rights. And what in the world does this have to do with everyone thinking the same?! I find it hard to believe that that's part of the definition, and in fact neither of the definitions at dictionary.com mention anything like that (as it happens, neither of them remotely describes Israel, either).
Please list the rights that Arab citizens do not have and Jewish citizens do.
I don't know what "the core of democracy is conversation" means, but whatever it means, Israeli Arabs have representation in the Knesset and in all the professions (excepting, I suppose, the rabbinate).
Why are you writing such things when there is enough evidence that Israel as a state is not committed to securing all rights for all of its citizens?
You are behaving either as an ignorant person or someone who has not followed the news for the last several years, or as a person who knows the situation but still ignores due to stupid and tribalist behaviours.
Representation is not = equal rights, per se.