Max Fisher

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

@mattyglesias Popular mythology says that ethnolinguistic communities, fixed and eternal, created states in their images. In reality, states ruling over heterodox populations engineered linguistic homogeneity and ethnic identities for the sake of political legitimation and mass mobilization. — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

@mattyglesias People reading this as some kind of rebuke of Matt — it’s not. I read his point as saying that the ethnolinguistic national model is one that some states pursue and others don’t, which seems totally correct to me. Please stop being shitty to him in my replies. — PolitiTweet.org