So, this brings us to the term "white nationalist." Here we must bear in mind that "race" and "ethnicity" are not one and the same concept. Take... the Puerto Ricans (whether called a "nation" or an "ethnicity")... they are a single "nationality" or "nation" or "ethnicity" but they are multi-racial. Kind of like the Jews are. Both come in the racial categorizations of white, brown, and black. Of course, white nationalist deny Jews are "white."
The term "white nationalist" is used to connote a racially (not ethnically) separatist view. Generally because it places high value on a concept called "biological determinism" or its twin or sibling "genetic determinism." And "racism" is:
the belief in the superiority of one race over another race. So, by the rhetoric of white nationalists it is pretty clear they want racial separatism because they believe white people are--through biological, genetic determinism--superior in various behavioral and physical traits to blacks, mixed-race people, Jews and so on.
The question Americans have never really figured out an answer to--although most conservatives probably have formulated a more clear idea than most liberals--is exactly what is an "American nationality"? Is it Satanism equal to Christianity, Judasim, and Islam? Is it gay marriage? Is it cowboys? Is it Chicago gangsters? Is it old money WASPs in Connecticut? Is it Islamist running a country? Is it promoting (not even tolerating) women walking around in full burkas or just the hijab?
Because the term "we are Americans" becomes relatively meaningless if there is no moral and cultural coherency. You might as well be like warring tribes in Iraq that need armed police and strong armed government to keep hating or rival factions from killing each other. But maybe that is the purpose of Identity Politics... I don't know.[/QUOTE]
It appears this thread has played out, but I wanted to take a moment to respond to this.
People wanting to find fault with "
racism" will make a big objection and be overly dramatic about the issue of ethnicity. The reality is, when we see people with given racial traits we draw the conclusion many times that a person is of a certain ethnicity based upon physical features, race being the predominant one.
Scientists agree that the average person lumps race and ethnicity into the same category:
Difference Between Ethnicity and Race | Difference Between
Whether by accident or design, the founding fathers were racially of one primary kind: white. And they shared a common religion with the same reasons for coming to America. By the time they developed their unique American culture, their race was an inextricable part of their ethnicity. Furthermore, their culture is unique and no matter how much you try to integrate it, the foreign cultures have varying degrees of ability to assimilate.
No matter how people try to spin it, America was founded by white men whose basic beliefs were based upon Christianity and the English Common Law. That is what the fundamental principles upon what this nation was built on. Other races, cultures and nationalities cannot understand that - at least fully and none seem to be willing to adopt our culture. So, the left demands that we integrate - and then bury our history, culture, ethnicity, etc. to accommodate them. Somehow it's expected that we make allowances for others, but by the same standard, many people have some lame excuse as to why the white people (or the posterity of the founding fathers if you like that designation better) cannot retain their culture, history, traditions, culture, ethnicity - whatever you choose to characterize it by.
It's race when it's black people wailing over the Confederate flag, statues, memorials, etc. and then when we get into these conversations about white people - there is suddenly no such concept as race and the whites have no issue according to the left. Perhaps cognitive dissonance is a disease of the left.
At the end of the day, and I've been consistent about the over-all fight, this has been an assault on this country's religion, heritage, culture, historical institutions, and every component that made up what was the posterity of the founding fathers. It's still genocide against whites (for lack of a better term - and you'd find fault with any I could imagine.)
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