Conservatives reject self-determination for some peoples while championing it for others

Evidence

In the 1950s and 60s, the demands of Palestinians, Kurds and Western Saharans were met with conservative diatribes disputing the moral basis of their right to self-determination. Similarly, the demands for democracy by the peoples of Latin America, Egypt, South Korea, etc. were resisted on the basis of Burkean arguments that their societies had not yet developed the social conventions and institutions ready to act as democracy’s pillars. After 1991, however, these conservative doubts about statehood and democracy vanished – selectively, of course, in former Yugoslavia, with the invasion of Afghanistan and Iraq performed in the name of democratising the Middle East – all with NATO troops in tow. — Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism, 1002

Categorization

• XREF: Parallels the double standard in the ‘Complaints About Immodesty’ article’s exposure of selective moral panic. — connects to: Tacit Christian nationalists can believe in inclusion yet grant it no practical path — Andrew L. Whitehead; Samuel L. Perry, Taking America Back for God, 337; People’s abstract political principles often fail to match their concrete policy preferences — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 3748
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism, 1002

Broader Connections

• Tacit Christian nationalists can believe in inclusion yet grant it no practical path #exemplifies (0.82) — Andrew L. Whitehead; Samuel L. Perry, Taking America Back for God, 337
• People’s abstract political principles often fail to match their concrete policy preferences #exemplifies (0.75) — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 3748