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This is right in principle, but also AIUI seems in tension with what @jacobtlevy.bsky.social is getting at with "the defense of liberty can't do without identity politics." Like, if Kurds or Ukrainians or whoever are only going to get motivated to make more-liberal governance happen...

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... get motivated to make more-liberal governance happen by hoisting the banner of "self-determination", it's hard to stomach denying them that just because we recognize that their national "self" conception, like all such conceptions, is arbitrary and dumb.

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