xankarn@mastodon.online (@xankarn@mastodon.online)
Associate Professor of History at SLAC (NY, USA). Not representing any employer.
Interests: power and the production of historical knowledge, public history, historical justice, historical dialogue, reconciliation, museum studies.
Commentary: Salon, The Progressive, HuffPost.
Resist Much, Obey Little. #RMOL
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This is honestly the best thing I have read about the US in months.
Senza categoriaVance makes cultural difference into something insurmountable and unbridgeable, forgetting/ignoring everything that humans share in common. It's political poison.
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This is honestly the best thing I have read about the US in months.
Senza categoria"Vice President Vance has said that “it is totally reasonable and acceptable for American citizens to look at their next-door neighbors and say, ‘I want to live next to people who I have something in common with. I don’t want to live next to four families of strangers.’” Minnesotans are insisting that their neighbors are their neighbors whether they were born in Minneapolis or Mogadishu."
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This is honestly the best thing I have read about the US in months.
Senza categoria"If the Minnesota resistance has an overarching ideology, you could call it “neighborism”—a commitment to protecting the people around you, no matter who they are or where they came from. The contrast with the philosophy guiding the Trump administration couldn’t be more extreme."