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“violence, empire, genocide, slavery, dispossession, and white supremacy are not aberattions of the U.S. nation-state but central to its very identity and structure.”
― American Exceptionalism and American Innocence: A People's History of Fake News―From the Revolutionary War to the War on Terror
― American Exceptionalism and American Innocence: A People's History of Fake News―From the Revolutionary War to the War on Terror
“our world gains meaning and sense through consistency and predictability. Language would not have been the same had we not repeatedly used the same words to refer to the same objects; science would not have been what it is had experiments and their results not been repeatable. Things gain sense through repetition (or the possibility of repetition). Law has a similar structure: if it is not repeatedly followed, it loses its grounds.”
― Kierkegaard and Political Theology
― Kierkegaard and Political Theology
“For example, in a New York Times editorial, the staff responded to Donald Trump’s rather uncontroversial claim that the Russian state is not the only one made up of “killers.” “There are a lot of killers,” Trump remarked. “Do you think our country is so innocent?”
― American Exceptionalism and American Innocence: A People's History of Fake News―From the Revolutionary War to the War on Terror
― American Exceptionalism and American Innocence: A People's History of Fake News―From the Revolutionary War to the War on Terror
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