Earnest or ironic, your posts just show that you are not only misinformed about the history of Yugoslavia but also are clueless about how Yugoslavia (besides Haiti, Somalia, East Timor, etc.) has been used to create a climate in which Gitlin's 'Yes' reverbarates among a fairly large number of liberals and even those who may be legitimately called leftists. In this process, (post)modern culturalist applications of local understandings of race & ethnicity to the areas where such understandings obscure, rather than clarify, social relations have been part of the problem, not the solution.
The failure of irony is the least of your problem. I simply note here that irony is only fine in the hands of those who know how to use it, to make it equal to reality.
Yoshie