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Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop
You are the one who, apropos of nothing, described yourself as "anti-most wokeism (people insisting where race is an issue it is the primary if not only significant issue, people who think 1619 holds water.)" but we are the ones wallowing in identity politics. Got it.
I'm not emotionally invested in anything here. I care so much about the 1619 Project that I haven't bothered to read it.
Will Wilkerson's "On The Defensive Prickliness of Anti-Woke Patriotism" basically has your number. |
I only read the first few paragraphs of Wilkerson's essay, since that is what we're doing here, but he did indeed get Sebby's number.
The odd thing is that the best argument against the revered American exceptionalism is today's Republican party. There is little exceptional about it and it is not so much specifically American as generically nationalistic in a way so many right wing nationalists around the world are.
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