American Exceptionalism and American Innocence Quotes

“America’s “revolution” has retained its progressive character even though the colonial elites leading the rebellion had grown rich from the trade of African slaves and the theft of Indigenous land for over a century prior to the Declaration of Independence in 1776.”
― Roberto Sirvent, American Exceptionalism and American Innocence: A People's History of Fake News―From the Revolutionary War to the War on Terror

“Natsu Taylor Saito explains that between 1513 and 1900”
― Roberto Sirvent, American Exceptionalism and American Innocence: A People's History of Fake News―From the Revolutionary War to the War on Terror

“A central aim of this book is to confront the reality that violence, empire, genocide, slavery, dispossession, and white supremacy are not aberattions of the U.S. nation-state but central to its very identity and structure.”
― Roberto Sirvent, American Exceptionalism and American Innocence: A People's History of Fake News―From the Revolutionary War to the War on Terror

“For example, in a New York Times editorial, the staff responded to Donald Trump’s rather uncontroversial claim that the Russian state is not the only one made up of “killers.” “There are a lot of killers,” Trump remarked. “Do you think our country is so innocent?”
― Roberto Sirvent, American Exceptionalism and American Innocence: A People's History of Fake News―From the Revolutionary War to the War on Terror

“violence, empire, genocide, slavery, dispossession, and white supremacy are not aberattions of the U.S. nation-state but central to its very identity and structure.”
― Roberto Sirvent, American Exceptionalism and American Innocence: A People's History of Fake News―From the Revolutionary War to the War on Terror