Yeah, it's a nation. A nation of immigrants. Where did your great-great-great grandfather come from? Did he spontaneously erupt from this common ancestry and heritage that you speak of?
Hi, Jew here: I was with you until you started slandering dissenters as "rootless cosmopolitans"—a slur has cost my family dearly—from jobs and enrollments to several dozen of our very lives.
Yes, NO land is an "economic zone" while it is also a home. I feel this especially acutely having grown up in the San Francisco Bay Area where My friends and I struggle to compete for housing with the best and the brightest from the entire world over who, themselves, treat my home region less like a community and more like an understaffed amusement park.
Nevertheless, your blood quanta framing is utterly horrifying to me, someone whose family were murdered, lands stolen, and who has no country to go back to.
We are not by choice "rootless cosmopolitans", but by the very bigotry you espouse.
> Blood and soil (German: Blut und Boden, pronounced [ˈbluːt ʊnt ˈboːdn̩] ⓘ) is a nationalist phrase and concept of a racially defined national body ("Blood") united with a settlement area ("Soil"). Originating in the German völkisch movement, it was used extensively by Nazi Germany
Hence my antipathy, 20+ years ago, to the creation to a department of "Homeland" Security. Not that function of that entity itself was necessarily a bad idea, but that the concept of a "homeland" is fundamentally at odds with the USA's credal concept of civic belonging. Smuggling the blood and soil metaphor (further and officially) into the national consciousness has born disastrous fruits.
Yeah, it's a nation. A nation of immigrants. Where did your great-great-great grandfather come from? Did he spontaneously erupt from this common ancestry and heritage that you speak of?
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common ancestry and heritage? that's what you're going for as the defining american feature? really?
Hi, Jew here: I was with you until you started slandering dissenters as "rootless cosmopolitans"—a slur has cost my family dearly—from jobs and enrollments to several dozen of our very lives.
Yes, NO land is an "economic zone" while it is also a home. I feel this especially acutely having grown up in the San Francisco Bay Area where My friends and I struggle to compete for housing with the best and the brightest from the entire world over who, themselves, treat my home region less like a community and more like an understaffed amusement park.
Nevertheless, your blood quanta framing is utterly horrifying to me, someone whose family were murdered, lands stolen, and who has no country to go back to.
We are not by choice "rootless cosmopolitans", but by the very bigotry you espouse.
I have nothing against you, and was unaware of the historical usage of the phrase rootless cosmopolitan.
It's terrible that as you say your family has no country to go back to. I am fighting hard to ensure that doesn't happen to my family.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rootless_cosmopolitan
> The term is considered to be an antisemitic trope
> common ancestry or heritage
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_and_soil
> Blood and soil (German: Blut und Boden, pronounced [ˈbluːt ʊnt ˈboːdn̩] ⓘ) is a nationalist phrase and concept of a racially defined national body ("Blood") united with a settlement area ("Soil"). Originating in the German völkisch movement, it was used extensively by Nazi Germany
Hence my antipathy, 20+ years ago, to the creation to a department of "Homeland" Security. Not that function of that entity itself was necessarily a bad idea, but that the concept of a "homeland" is fundamentally at odds with the USA's credal concept of civic belonging. Smuggling the blood and soil metaphor (further and officially) into the national consciousness has born disastrous fruits.