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The "pro-Israeli right" strikes again..
View: https://x.com/JoelWBerry/status/1859221344874881101
Auron says here I am an ethnonationalist for Israel, but not anyone else.
Auron is either a bad-faith snake, or he isn’t as smart as I thought he was. For the sake of brotherly kindness I’ll assume the latter. I’m not against a certain kind of nationalism that takes culture, beliefs, and character into account. America should be for Americans, and we should start defining exactly what that means because right now things are a mess.
What I’m against is white nationalism. I think skin color is a stupid thing to base “ethnos” on. And because I believe skin color is irrelevant, Auron will straw-man me and say that must mean I believe America is just an “economic zone” or “tax farm” or slander me as a multiculturalist.
Assuming he isn’t stupid, the reason he presents a false choice between racial “purity” and multiculturalism is because he believes culture is inextricably linked to race, or as many of his followers always tell me on here, “culture is downstream from race.” I disagree with that statement. I think it’s not only wrong scientifically, I think it is a godless error of materialism that denies the Imago Dei and reduces men to products of their DNA.
America as a creedal nation is a great idea I truly believe in. The problem is we haven’t taught, passed down, enforced, or required allegiance to the creed—and that needs to change.
As for Zionism, if Auron is so butt-hurt about Jews getting to build a nation as a refuge for Abraham’s physical descendants, he should tell his white nationalist and tradcath followers to stop persecuting and murdering them in every country outside Israel where they try to reside and assimilate. I also reject the premise that Israel is purely ethnonationalist. It’s a home for Jews, but it’s not exclusive to Jews. That said, I don’t blame them for being a bit cautious since everyone keeps trying to kill them.
And yes, I maintain that Christian bonds make us closer than any other bonds. That even goes for wokies like Phil Vischer and Auron, assuming they are real Christians.
Joel Berry is the editor of The Babylon Bee, a conservative Christian news satire website
Reply from "The Distributist"..
View: https://x.com/greeneman6/status/1859274629875106189
We can endlessly argue over the definition of “ethno-nationalism”. But what is clear for pretty much everyone looking at this problem is the following:
1. If a white-gentile country had the border/immigration/demographic policy that Israel does, it would be called “far right ethnonationalist” by modern conservatives.
2. Such a immigration/demographic policy would be considered historically normal in Christian countries before 1900
3. Any modern first world country that doesn’t have such a discriminating immigration policy will imminently be demographically overwhelmed by the third world and its culture replaced.
With these truths considered, what is the real debate about “ethno-nationalism” about? Is it just about “once in a blue moon” exceptions that should have no-bearing on policy and will have no bearing on overall demographics?
I've posted stuff before from both Auron MacIntyre and The Distributist who are Christian commentators
View: https://x.com/MillennialWoes/status/1859341906368479507
View: https://t.me/The_Course_of_Empire/28537