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“By presuming that the course of American history runs on an arc that bends toward justice, and by presuming that this is the arc that describes my life, I ignore another possibility: that the United States was founded as a Herrenvolk society, that the master race dynamics of this founding are still very much at work in our public life, and that I am both an inheritor and a practitioner of wealth and privilege.”
— Jul 23, 2025 11:26AM
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“We are inclined to cherry-pick Dr. King ourselves.
… "The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice” sheds almost as little light on the whole of King's teaching, and it too is plucked out of context. It is no coincidence that this quotation is palatable to progressive politicians because it allows them to evoke the providentialism so endemic to American culture.”
— Jul 23, 2025 11:22AM
… "The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice” sheds almost as little light on the whole of King's teaching, and it too is plucked out of context. It is no coincidence that this quotation is palatable to progressive politicians because it allows them to evoke the providentialism so endemic to American culture.”
