Kevin Carson and 2 others boosted
Toni Aittoniemi
@gimulnautti@mastodon.green  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago
Toni Aittoniemi
@gimulnautti@mastodon.green  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago
der.hans boosted
Malcolm Nance
@MalcolmNance@defenseofliberty.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago
Malcolm Nance
@MalcolmNance@defenseofliberty.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago
Malcolm Nance
@MalcolmNance@defenseofliberty.social  ·  activity timestamp 3 months ago
Heidi Li Feldman
@heidilifeldman@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 4 months ago
"Identifying America just with agreeing with the principles, let's say, of the Declaration of Independence — that's a definition that is way over-inclusive and under-inclusive at the same time," Vance said. He explained that such a definition "would include hundreds of millions, maybe billions of foreign citizens who agree" with the principles of the Declaration of Independence, dubbing it "the logic of America as a purely Creole nation." By the opposite token, Vance said, conceiving of American citizenship "purely as an idea" would "reject a lot of people that the ADL would label as domestic extremists, even though those very Americans had their ancestors fight in the Revolutionary War and the Civil War," he said, referencing the Anti-Defamation League, a nonprofit that was founded to combat antisemitism and that, among other activities, tracks far-right groups. "I think the people whose ancestors fought in the Civil War have a hell of a lot more claim over America than the people who say they don't belong," he concluded.
"Identifying America just with agreeing with the principles, let's say, of the Declaration of Independence — that's a definition that is way over-inclusive and under-inclusive at the same time," Vance said. He explained that such a definition "would include hundreds of millions, maybe billions of foreign citizens who agree" with the principles of the Declaration of Independence, dubbing it "the logic of America as a purely Creole nation." By the opposite token, Vance said, conceiving of American citizenship "purely as an idea" would "reject a lot of people that the ADL would label as domestic extremists, even though those very Americans had their ancestors fight in the Revolutionary War and the Civil War," he said, referencing the Anti-Defamation League, a nonprofit that was founded to combat antisemitism and that, among other activities, tracks far-right groups. "I think the people whose ancestors fought in the Civil War have a hell of a lot more claim over America than the people who say they don't belong," he concluded.
"Identifying America just with agreeing with the principles, let's say, of the Declaration of Independence — that's a definition that is way over-inclusive and under-inclusive at the same time," Vance said. He explained that such a definition "would include hundreds of millions, maybe billions of foreign citizens who agree" with the principles of the Declaration of Independence, dubbing it "the logic of America as a purely Creole nation." By the opposite token, Vance said, conceiving of American citizenship "purely as an idea" would "reject a lot of people that the ADL would label as domestic extremists, even though those very Americans had their ancestors fight in the Revolutionary War and the Civil War," he said, referencing the Anti-Defamation League, a nonprofit that was founded to combat antisemitism and that, among other activities, tracks far-right groups. "I think the people whose ancestors fought in the Civil War have a hell of a lot more claim over America than the people who say they don't belong," he concluded.
Preston MacDougall
@ChemicalEyeGuy@mstdn.science  ·  activity timestamp 4 months ago
der.hans boosted
Malcolm Nance
@MalcolmNance@defenseofliberty.social  ·  activity timestamp 4 months ago
Robert W. Gehl
@rwg@aoir.social  ·  activity timestamp 4 months ago
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