Look at Turkey if you want a real example of what happens when a state denies the existence of a minority. For decades the government insisted that Kurds did not exist, calling them “mountain Turks.” Kurdish language, names, and culture were banned. The result was predictable: resentment, uprisings, and a brutal conflict that killed tens of thousands and held the entire country back for decades.

Only in recent years has Turkey started to face this mistake, allowing Kurdish broadcasting, political representation, and cultural expression. Every small step toward recognition has reduced tension and opened space for democracy.

Denying identity never creates unity; it only manufactures endless conflict. Recognition and equality do not weaken a state they are the only things that make it truly stable.

You are still confusing erasing identity with creating equality. Saying “there are no minorities by law” does not make people equal, it simply denies their existence on paper. That is not unity, it is assimilation disguised as fairness.

Your argument about federations is wrong. Recognizing minorities and giving them rights is not tokenization, it is democracy. What you call “ethnic slotting” is actually plural representation, which is the foundation of any inclusive system.

Austria-Hungary did not collapse because it recognized diversity, it collapsed because it refused to share power and used legal loopholes to keep certain ethnic groups dominant. That is exactly what you are defending now.

And regarding Bulgarian Turks, the issue is not citizenship but identity. Equality means they can live as who they are without being forced into a state-approved label. Banning their parties, names or cultural expression is not equality, it is control.

Denying minorities does not prevent division, it guarantees it. True equality protects identity; authoritarianism erases it and then calls the silence “unity.”

Thanks chat gpt 😂