“Keep in mind that these cruelties in the Philippines have been wholly exceptional, and have been shamelessly exaggerated,” the president told a crowd at Arlington National Cemetery in Memorial Day 1902. This would become a familiar motif among apologists of the U.S. empire: the insistence - all evidence to the contrary - that abuses are rare, spontaneous, and limited; that they are not “who we are.”
— Jun 28, 2025 10:48AM
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