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"This country is not built on a specific racial, ethnic, or religious identity like many, many old-world Eurasian nations." I know there's an ideal of what Ame
by locopati 2y ago
"This country is not built on a specific racial, ethnic, or religious identity like many, many old-world Eurasian nations."
I know there's an ideal of what America should be, but don't muddle the reality. America was built on whiteness (whose definition shifted over time) and class identity.
- rbanffy 2y agoIt's true, but that's not a reason to dump the ideals. Quite the contrary, that's a reason to embrace the ideals even more. A professor once taught me that the law is not meant to represent the people, but to frame the ideal we want to be.