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this is rather dumb considering Israel is more ethnically diverse than any of it's neighbors
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Israel
Apartheid South Africa was ethnically diverse...... Still an ethno-state.
Ethno-states aren't defined as lacking diversity, they are defined by an ethnic creating and maintaining a dominant hierarchy of that diversity.
not disagreeing but want to point out by that definition America is an ethnostate. Which again I'm not disagreeing with.
I don't know why you're getting down voted. It's just a historical fact.
It's because he's attempting to utilize the fact that America was and potentially still is an ethno-state to lessen the culpability of the Israeli ethno-state.
While modern America uses systemic racism to establish an ethnic hierarchy, unlike Israel it doesn't expressly by law prohibit the movement or upward mobility of different ethnicities. Even if it did, that fact would not lessen the culpability of another state doing the same.
Context and nuance is important.
I thought they were just agreeing on the fact that the USA is also an ethno-state that was founded on genocide.
They were, but when evaluated against their original claim its pretty apparent they were doing it to establish a whataboutism.