It's because he's attempting to utilize the fact that America was and potentially still is an ethno-state to lessen the culpability of the Israeli ethno-state.

While modern America uses systemic racism to establish an ethnic hierarchy, unlike Israel it doesn't expressly by law prohibit the movement or upward mobility of different ethnicities. Even if it did, that fact would not lessen the culpability of another state doing the same.

Context and nuance is important.

[–] Saymaz@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

I thought they were just agreeing on the fact that the USA is also an ethno-state that was founded on genocide.

[–] TranscendentalEmpire@lemmy.today 1 points 14 hours ago

They were, but when evaluated against their original claim its pretty apparent they were doing it to establish a whataboutism.