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So as ever on the right, there has been a great deal

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of discussion over

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the issues of race, ethnicity, nation, nationalism, and related matters.

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And so I want to go over these issues to make sure

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that people understand

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what is actually being said when these terms are used, what is

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sometimes not being said, what is being deliberately misstated, etc.

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And so it is important to go over exactly what these terms

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truly mean, so that you know, when someone uses them to mean

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something else, he is attempting to deceive you.

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And so of course we start with race.

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The second sense of the word race, the first of course just

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meaning running, is a group of people

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descended from a common ancestor, or a class of persons allied by

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common ancestry.

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Those two things, of course, mean the same thing.

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It came to us through French, and earlier, most likely through Italian,

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ultimately from Latin, the Latin being radix root.

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Now some modern etymologists and linguists will attempt to say that it

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did not come from radicx, that it has no connection to that.

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I would hope most of you can see through that for what

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it is.

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It's an attempt at deception.

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It is an attempt to deny the connection here.

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What does the term mean?

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It means people of a common stock.

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Well, what does that mean?

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People of a common root.

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People with a common ancestor.

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And so that is what race means.

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It means people of the same blood.

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But what is a nation?

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Well, nation comes from us ultimately from Proto Indo European, the root

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being gene Which means give birth or beget.

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Now some may be wondering, how do we get from gene to

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nation? Because those words are rather different.

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It's true, they are different in form, but it really takes two

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steps to see how we get from gene to nation.

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And so it comes to us through Latin before that from Old

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Latin. Old Latin would be gnaski, and that is be beborn G

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N A S C I.

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It drops the G in Latin, becomes Naski, be born, also natus,

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nationem, all of these words related to birth.

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And so of course you can see the connection there, because if

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you are related to someone by blood, ultimately that means birth.

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That is the only way you can be related to someone by

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blood is by birth, ultimately.

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And so nation and race are very closely related terms.

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They are not identical terms, and they are not identical for this

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reason. Race refers specifically to the people of common ancestry, those of

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the same blood.

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Nation

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in English refers to those

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Of common blood living in a certain territory.

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And so it is both of those things.

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Nation is blood and soil.

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So nation is race plus territory.

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That is the actual meaning of nation.

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And so, for instance, those who will argue that you have a

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nation made up of different groups.

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Are just making an incoherent argument.

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That's not a nation.

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Because a nation definitionally is a race, a group of common blood,

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plus a territory, soil.

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And so a bunch of groups living together in a common territory

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who do not share blood is not a nation.

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That's a bazaar or a civil war, is what that is.

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There is another term that is worth mentioning, I mentioned it in

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the opening as it were, and that is ethnicity.

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Ethnicity means the same thing as race.

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This is just coming to us from Greek instead of from Latin.

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This is particularly salient to Christians, because some of you will already

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have recognized the Greek word underlying ethnicity, because it's very similar as

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ethnos. Ethne in the plural ethnos just means nation or

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race or people.

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Hence ethnicity

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and race are again identical.

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In the Septuagint, which is to say the Greek translation of the

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Old Testament, this is translating Goi or Goyim, which is Hebrew for

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nation

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or race.

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I would hope you are seeing a theme here.

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And so when someone speaks to you about ethnicity and tries to

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distinguish it from race, do not let him do that, because ethnicity

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and race are identical in a somewhat similar fashion to sex and

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gender. Now, in the modern usage, the left, and which is to

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say Marxists, of course, have attempted to make this ambiguous, to disconnect

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these terms.

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Sex is the biological reality of male or female, man or woman.

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Gender is the expressed reality of the biological reality.

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And so men are masculine, Women are feminine.

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Male and masculine are the same thing.

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They express different aspects of the reality of being a biological male,

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of being XY.

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Female and feminine and woman are expressing different aspects of the reality

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of being XX, of being a biological woman.

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The terms are essentially identical.

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They just addressed different parts of the reality.

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Same thing for race and ethnicity.

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I'll get into that another time, perhaps, but they are slightly different

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in sense, but they do not express, they do not refer to

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different realities.

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If you say someone is German, that is both his race and

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his ethnicity.

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They are the same thing.

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So I am, although it does get a little more complicated when

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you speak of the United States, and I'll get into that now.

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The reason it gets a little more complicated for the United States,

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and this is just this is how nations form, because you can

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create a new nation.

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The nations are not set.

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We've seen new nations created in history.

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For instance, those who stepped off the ark, three males, who would

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go on to found a number of nations.

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Noah did not have any more children, so he didn't found any

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more nations.

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He of course is the father of all of them, because he

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was the father of all three, of the men who went on

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to form nations.

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In order of their birth, Japheth, Shem and Ham.

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Japh is Europe.

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His sons colonized Europe, and the upper fringe of the African continent,

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which is to say, they ringed the Mediterranean, because of course you

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have the Sahara between, you have that border between the Mediterranean rim

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and the rest of the African continent.

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You have the sons of Shem, form the Middle East and as

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stated the sons of Ham, of course, then are Africa.

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Asia is mostly sons of Shem.

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And so the United States is a Japhethitic nation.

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We are descended from Japheth.

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But we are not descended from only one of his sons or

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grandsons, because of course the table of nations in Genesis lists his

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sons and grandsons, who went on to form the various nations and

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tribes in Europe.

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And so for instance, I am German, which is to say I

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am a son of Ashkenaz, who was a son of Gomer, who

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was a son of Japheth?

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The United States is descended mostly from Anglo Saxons, and so largely

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that would be those those from what is now the UK, and

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some from Western Europe.

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All sons of Japheth, but not all from the same nation.

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Now, race can refer to a smaller or a larger group.

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And so for instance, it is not wrong to refer to all

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of mankind as the race of Adam.

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Or really you could say the race of Noah because there was

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a bottleneck there and we are all descended from Noah.

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But

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it is misleading, it is wrong, it is deception.

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When you attempt to conflate the fact that we are all descended

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from Adam, and attempt to then argue that we are all one

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race. Because when someone advances that argument, he is using the word

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race in two different senses.

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There is the overarching sense of descended from Adam, but then there

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is the more concrete sense of French or German or Polish or

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Italian or what have you, American.

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When we speak of race in the modern context, we almost always

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mean that more restricted sense.

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And so the American race is Western European, it is Anglo Saxon

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in origin.

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That is what America the nation is.

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Now you have to distinguish nation and country.

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The country is the political entity.

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Those may very well be the same in some cases.

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These days much less so, historically much more so.

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And so the United States is a political entity.

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The American nation is a racial entity.

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These are not identical.

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And so it is very possible to be a staunch nationalist, to

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support the American nation, and yet oppose just as vehemently the political

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entity known as the United States United States.

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For some Christians, of course, this will bring up Romans thirteen and

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other such places where you are to submit to rightful authority.

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That is a discussion for another time.

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However, very briefly it is worth mentioning that Romans thirteen is polemical.

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So

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read it with that eye, read it with that lens in mind.

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This is not an absolute command.

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You do not abs you do not submit to all authority.

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There is rightful and there is wrongful authority.

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Perhaps eventually I will get around to the Magdeburg Confession, which gives

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a thorough Christian treatment of when we are to submit to authority

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and when we are to in fact rebel.

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Because not all authority is rightful, and Christians are not to blindly

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submit to all authority.

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But anyway, back to the issue at hand.

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We've now gone through the terms.

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And so the overall point, the

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real thing that I want to drive home is that terms matter.

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And that terms have meanings, and the meanings matter.

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You cannot use whatever term you want to mean whatever you want.

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If I want you to get me a glass of water, and

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I ask you for a goat, the odds of my receiving a

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glass of water are probably fairly slim.

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These things have meaning.

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It is important to use them

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with the meaning they have in mind, to use them correctly.

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Now, our adversaries are very fond of redefining terms, they always have

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been, because Satan is a liar, and so are all of his

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children. Do not let them do that.

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Insist on using the actual sense of the sense of the terms

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if they will not engage with the actual sense of the terms,

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they are engaging in bad faith, do not engage with them.

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That is a categorical prohibition.

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Those who are exceptions will know it.

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Good odds you are not.

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Do not engage with those who are engaging in bad faith, who

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refuse to use the actual sense of the terms that are necessary

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to have the debate?

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And so, in summary, the terms are these: race is blood, it

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is a group of people of common descent, those who have a

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common ancestor.

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Nation is blood, which is to say race, and soil, which is

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to say territory.

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It is the combination of those two things.

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Ethnicity is for basically all intents and purposes identical to race.

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These terms are vitally important to politics in the United States and

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in the larger Western world right now.

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Nationalism is the way forward.

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It is the only godly ideology for government to have when it

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comes to these issues.

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And without these terms, you cannot meaningfully discuss nationalism and what you

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mean by nationalism.

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Civic nationalism, so called, is not a thing.

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That is a cult.

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That is idolatry.

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That is worship of, in the US context, the Constitution.

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That is not a real political ideology, that is a losing strategy.

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It's nonsense.

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Ultimately it is wicked and destructive, but that is a discussion perhaps

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for another day.

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We've now gone over the terms race, nation, ethnicity, what the terms

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mean, why they're important, and what you should do and what you

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should not do with them.

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Engage with them according to their actual definitions.

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Be willing to engage with those who use the actual definitions.

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Do not engage with those who engage in bad faith, which is

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to say those who pervert the terms and refuse to

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use them according to their actual meanings.

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Ultimately, we will win this conflict.

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But we will not win it by engaging on the enemy's terms.

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We will win by forcing them to engage on our terms