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                                                    A couple days ago I had a brief exchange on twitter. Somebody asked me how many “Ethno-states” I think there are in the world. I responded saying “I don’t think there are any Ethno-states currently, and that there should not be. Now he responded with a list of countries topped off with a few ad-hominems. But this is not a response to him. That exchange just got me thinking about “Ethno-states” what they are, what they are not, and why there are none left in the world, and why that's good. So I would define an “Ethno-state” as a civil political tool, that involves strictly regulating Ethnicity. Ethnicity is “cultural, heritage”. It is different than race (which is simply heritage). So segregation occurs and has occurred all over the world, but segregation still allows ethnicity's to grow, and interact, all be it to a limited degree. Think about the difference between pre-civil rights United States, and WWII Nazi Germany. Pr

                                                           I’d like to talk about feminism, its waves, inconsistencies, why it is not necessary in the western world, and why I do not call myself a feminist and instead prefer the term egalitarian. Now I know as a male writing about feminism, someone will inevitably scream “MANSPLAINEING”, but I will scream “FREEDOM OF SPEECH” way louder. I will start by defining feminism, feminism is the support of gender equality through female empowerment. Many modern feminists define it as only support of gender equality, but I reject that definition. Unlike many “anti-feminists”, I have no problem stamping labels on people, if they meet the established definition of said label. And if we were in Saudi Arabia and one asked me if I were a feminist I would most likely say “YES” just like if I traveled back to the roaring 20’s. The thing is that female empowerment is a very important part of feminism, hence the name FEMINism. I mean what if there was a