What you mean when you say "This isn't America" is "This does not fit with the narrative of American exceptionalism I have been fed my whole life"
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To say "This isn't America" is to erase wholesale the experiences of the indigenous survivors of genocide, the descendants of slaves, the children of despised immigrants, the employees of robber barons, etc.
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"This isn't MY America" is a similar phrase that centers ones own privileged experience of this nation as the "REAL" America while dismissing divergence from this experience as not authentically American
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What ACTUALLY isn't America is a commitment to inclusion, a baseline of respect and dignity for nonwhite peoples, a devotion to equity and communal uplift.
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This isn't just an issue of how we use language either. There's a paper trail for America's bad behavior. The laws and policies that enable America's malfeasance sit undisturbed. America uses the lie that its bad behavior is in the past to resist blame for its continuation
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We are still grappling with America's history of ill conceived policy and the refusal to acknowledge that it is our history prevents us from ever correcting it and making amends.
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It must be incredibly frustrating to realize that a white person can stand right next to you and not see these things. We literally live in two different countries. The "America" of the white imagination is a remarkable, if entirely nonexistent, place.
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"This is totes America but I didn't expect that it would affect me or be someplace I couldn't look away from it"
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Very much agree & likewise reminded of the Langston Hughes poem that makes very nearly the same point but also contains a nudge towards what America *could* be
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