American Individualism, in its near-Platonic form, is portrayed/emblazoned in the common mythos around rugged Cowboys, Frontiersmen, etc. All hark back to a time when white men cut civilization from the "wild" forests and non-white natives. Manifest Destiny, Frontier thesis, etc.
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It’s a testament to the power of mythology that people focus on the shiny emblems of individualism, and not the call for a society composed of people exactly like themselves.
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Because that argument makes it easy to perpetuate privilege without acknowledging it.
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