No one demands you to give an answer as to who an Indian is. No one is ever confused as to who an Israeli or Turk or Japanese or Korean is. And yet every time someone tries to assert an American identity that’s worthy of being protected politically, suddenly we all act as if no one has any idea what an American is. It’s as if these people demand you define what a chair is and then when you give an answer, they’ll tear it to pieces and then claim chairs don’t exist even as they’re sitting in one. It’s all so incredibly disingenuous. We aren’t playing this game any longer. “American” is not a synonym for abstract universal man who also happens to believe non vague notions of freedom. Everyone knows what an American is, including those who pretend not to know, which is why they constantly attack the concept in the first place because they are fundamentally opposed to the idea that there could ever be an inherited identity that anyone ever organizes themselves around politically.