[National sovereignty]
Are you not aware of the history of the Nation State? Of the US specifically? The history of the idea of sovereignty? All of those things are explicitly racist, yes.
I'm guessing you haven't read any Locke, have you?
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Nope, racism has nothing to do with the origin of Nation State, mostly because it was developed at a time when racism was not even a formulated ideology.
The idea of a Nation State veered into racist theory during the 19th century. However, the idea of Nations predates that, by about a century. See French Revolution. I'm guessing the OP never read the Déclaration des Droits et des Devoirs de l'Homme et du Citoyen.
Not heard of civic nationalism, have you? You might want to find out about it, because the US is a prime example. Nor have you considered that the Ottoman sultan and the Habsburg emperor were sovereign, when they ruled over dozens of ethnicities, used people of many nationalities to govern them, while they themselves married foreigners.
Incidentally, what is conspiracist about this?
I think you'll find that the geographical nation state concept works against one race of outsiders in exactly the same way as any other race of outsiders. The specific race of the outsiders is irrelevant - the immigration laws of England apply as equally to the Swiss as they do to the Chinese.
Yes its a form of discrimination, no its not racism.
> Not heard of civic nationalism, have you? You might want to find out about it, because the US is a prime example.
And when he's done, he can look at Rome, one of the countries the US was modeled after (along with the Iroquois Confederacy, England, and Athens).
"Explicit" here meaning "if you tilt your head, unfocus your eyes, squint, and take a blow to the head."
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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