Some tweets from @Pinboard feel like they want to go here: This is a small point but important: don’t specify people are ‘US-born’; either you’re a US citizen

Some tweets from @Pinboard feel like they want to go here: This is a small point but important: don’t specify people are ‘US-born’; either you’re a US citizen or you’re not. Emphasizing that someone was born in the US as a kind of super-citizenship plays into the hands of people you don’t want to be helping. The proper term for someone born abroad who doesn’t speak English and has a brand-new US passport is: “American”