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“ut this is not a story about America and its promise, no matter how many flags people wave. Nor is this about the red-faced temper-tantrums of over-privileged conservatives. This is a story about the suffering that dominates too many and too much of our lives. The attention to such combined performances of conservative xenophobia and model immigrant patriotism serves to distract from our responsibility to change how we work and live together in a society filled with flimsily-concealed, but all-too-real, hierarchies operating to exploit women, children, immigrants and people of colour.”
That is one of the best explanations in this excellent essay!