Bari: “This whole notion of blood-and-soil nationalism that you increasingly see on the right... that civilization is somehow something that is passed down in the blood, and not something that is passed down through culture & ideas & beliefs is, to me, deeply anti-American."
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Sam: "It’s mirrored on the left with this notion that identity, racial identity in particular, is morally and politically paramount."
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Sam: “If I’m going to criticize neo-nazis, I’m not criticizing white people, I’m criticizing terrible ideas. And when I’m criticizing Islamism or Jihadism, I’m not criticizing Arabs or any other ethnicity, I’m criticizing the consequences of ideas.”
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Another way to put that is culture, which carries in it social mores, expectations, behaviors. An issue during periods of great transformations, such as now, is how well those survive. That must surely drive some of the angst experienced by many Americans right now.
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Are they talking about Israel?
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