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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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[–] overthere@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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?

[–] AmidFuror@fedia.io -1 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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.

[–] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

They don't. So it is.

[–] AmidFuror@fedia.io 1 points 1 day ago

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.

[–] overthere@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 day ago

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.