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A Letter of Inquiry to the White Ethno-State from a Zionist

Just some clarifying questions

Gregory Uzelac
6 min readAug 19, 2017
“Maga” (Ink & Digital. 2017) by the author

Dear White Nazi (short for Nazionalist, of course),

As a proudly Jewish person and Zionist, I believe in the nation state wholeheartedly. As I’m sure you agree, since your leader Richard Spencer recently appropriated the Jewish socio-political philosophy, Zionism preaches that an ethnic group in peril, whose culture is rooted in a collected history, language, and experience, is entitled to a sense of dominion and safety in places in which that identity is rooted. Palestinians are an example of a people who deserve this. Thanks to you, Jews still do too.

Now, I am still unclear on what peril White people are in, for, as a race, you have never been systematically oppressed nor collectively massacred by non-Whites, but you are set on stealing (consistency is definitely a White quality) our term. Before I relinquish it (I won’t) I just have some logistical questions about your proposed White Ethno-State.

The first question, is the most elementary: What ethnicity is White? As we both know, White is a race, not an ethnicity. Race is a construct in which a section of society is distinguished by a feature (skin colour is popular), prescribed an identity by the powerful elite, and slotted into a socio-political hierarchy…

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Gregory Uzelac
Gregory Uzelac

Written by Gregory Uzelac

Writer & artist. New York-raised, Diaspora style. www.guzelac.com

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