#Exceptionalism

Anand Giridharadas

AnandWrites

A playbook to transform America.I talked with Congressman @RoKhanna about how @POTUS is surprising progressives, and how those who want real change in American life must embrace patriotism, aspiration, and

Kaitlyn Greenidge

surlybassey

I keep coming back to that one person trying to defend that nyt reporter using the n-word with "what if he was reading student's hucklberry finn???" First off, he wasn'tsecond,

Ashley Lynch™️ ✂️🎬

ashleylynch

American exceptionalism is a brain disease.https://twitter.com/voxdotcom/status/1292529788729593858 The right wants to talk about how "higher education is brainwashing for liberal policies" but the real educational brainwashing th

Farah-Silvana Kanaan

farahkanaan

Look I was OBSESSED with living in the U.S. when I was a kid. At the ripe old age of 8 I wrote in my diary, in huge letters: When

Marc Olivier

takeoutphoto

Refusal to wear a mask= white supremacy. Here’s why: People who get angry at the slightest inconvenience are people who are used to getting their way. They are the Karens

Henry Mance

henrymance

Boris Johnson has made the same mistakes on coronavirus as he made on Brexit - a belief in British exceptionalism, blind optimism, and futile promises he could not deliver.When the

Joshua Leifer

joshualeifer

I think it's pretty clear that the Trump years consolidated a kind of "national-liberal" tendency, which is especially prevalent in the mainstream press corps, segments of academia, and, yes, swaths

Post-Liberal Pete 🇬🇧

post_liberal

If the underlying guiding philosophy & ideology of Brexitism is exceptionalism then the underlying guiding philosophy of Remainerism is declinism. This is why you see some Remainers, whose minds have

Jared Yates Sexton

JYSexton

While politicians, pundits, and media wring their hands over whether to call this a coup attempt or if they should hold Trump accountable, the fascists are openly planning armed insurrection

peach 🍑

peachontwitta

The greatest American lie is that people from every other country wish they lived here. They don’t. The same people tend to be in the “why would I ever want

Dr Morag Rose

thelrm

Help, please, Mcr twitter. I'm writing about "Radical Manchester" tours/zines (2005ish) but my notes are scruffy. I always finished that walk with a critique of the narrative that we are

K.B. Wagers *pre-order Out Past the Stars now!*

kbwagers

I'm not gonna QT the ridiculousness floating around but I do want to say something about it because the myth of American exceptionalism and rugged individualism is still something people

Jared Yates Sexton

JYSexton

Because we were "perfect" and "God's chosen nation," we reacted to any civil rights protests or protests in general by assuming they were in bad-faith and evil.We believed it was

Putey Pute

putey_pute

Do you remember the moments after indyref? I remember thinking ‘yes! We won’ and was quite happy to forget about the whole thing and move on. In the coming days,

Jared Yates Sexton

JYSexton

Our nation is failing.We've spent so much money and energy on trying to control the world through the use of force and so much cultural energy into white patriarchal dominance

Ingrid M

iMusing

that paternalistic bullshit yesterday, implying we are all enamoured of the lies politicians tell about the military, erases millions of people who marched against the Vietnam war, marched against the

By continuing to use the site, you are consenting to the use of cookies as explained in our Cookie Policy to improve your experience.