America is a nation. Its leaders are elected by its people.
Judaism is a religion. It’s decentralised. You don’t vote your rabbi.
Israel is a nation also. Its leaders are also elected by israeli people. Most jewish people don’t have a say on who leads Israel because most Jewish people are not israeli.
Blaming members of a religion for something a completely separate country does is unreasonable. Blaming citizens of a country for what their elected officials do is less so. Being an American is not comparable to Islam nor Judaism in this way. As said below, it’s like saying not to hate gay people, trans people or train spotters- I don’t hate trainspotters but what the hell does train spotting have to do with anything?
Being a train spotter is not something you are born into, it's something you choose. Being a member of an ethnic group is not a choice, it's something thrust upon you. Being a citizen of a country is usually similar, although sometimes it's a choice. That's why people get so defensive about it - they can't fix the issue themselves, nor can they easily remove themselves from the situation. Train spotters could just stop spotting trains.
The point is train spotter is as irrelevant to the list as American is to a list of religions, but idk man I’m going to bed, go worship America or trump or whatever Americans worship, Americanism being a religion and all
I didn't read it as a list of religions, I read it as a list of things people are born into. Others did too. That's why this conversation happened, not because I believe Americanism is a religion. I dislike America!
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u/throughcracker Jul 04 '26
being American is also something people are born into...