In order to argue that America’s philosophy is wrongheaded, her culture diseased, and her history evil—to treat America as the great exploiter rather than the great liberator, wealth creator, and rights defender—Disintegrationists must engage in an extraordinarily selective reading of reality. They must home in in excruciating detail on America’s sins, which, in context, would be fine—but rob that history of all context or subsequent history. Exploitation is a feature of every human society, and repeated mistreatment by some groups of other groups is a similarly common feature. What is
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