I don't want to accuse this person of being intentionally naive.

I think they genuinely feel those righteous feelings.

But the idea that a state can belong to a people, that you can have national self-determination

of a pre-existing people, and then in fact it's really important that the peoples of this world

who exist, there is such a category as people, and it can be profoundly important, that they get

to have their state. That is not a fascist idea. That is not historically what fascists argued.

That is, in fact, Woodrow Wilson's idea of self-determination, that is what Palestinians are asking for.

You can argue that it can be taken to fascist places. You can argue that extreme versions of it

can be bad. I'm not going to argue against you. We have too many examples of that.

The very idea that self-determination, that a state for a nation, is a fascist idea,

is something that only really works as a tweet.

However, I think that there's a profound question here, that this person, maybe if they had

time to go and sit and think and actually care about their own actions and questions

in the world and take themselves seriously,

I think they would come up with a better version of this question.

And the better version of this question is, I live, I'm assuming this about this person,

I live in a civic democracy.

I live in a country, possibly the U.S., maybe France, where legally there is no recognition of ethnicity.

Legally, there is no formal religion.

Legally, everyone is just a citizen, and the nation is the body of citizens, and the body of

citizens is the nation.

So, yes, in other countries, it works differently.

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