Virginia Delegate Sam Rasoul, whose family was displaced by Israel, wrote about the ‘evils’ of Zionism, prompting a flurry of attacks from Tim Kaine, Abigail Spanberger, and other party colleagues.

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    So White Christian Nationalists wanting to have their own ethnostate and exterminate non-whites is bad, but Jewish Nationalists (Zionists) wanting to have their own ethnostate and exterminate non-Jews is ok?

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      Almost every state is built around a dominant ethnicity. Israel is not 100% Jewish. And as long as they treat minorities fairly, it’s not inherently bad.

      Exterminating other races is unequivocally bad in all cases, but you only included that to appeal to emotion.

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        And as long as they treat minorities fairly, it’s not inherently bad.

        They don’t. So it is.

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          Then the US is already an ethnostate. And so are Norway, Germany, and Italy to different degrees.

          China and Japan are arguably better examples of ethnostates than Israel.

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        An ethnostate does not simply imply a that a majority of one ethnic group exists. Apartheid is not normal for most states.

        An ethnocracy is a type of political structure in which the state apparatus is controlled by a dominant ethnic group (or groups) to further that group’s perceived interests, power, dominance, and resources.