One thing about nationalism that Hazony gets right: membership doesn't legibilize well. You can't reduce it to either zoology or philosophy. In or out, you know it when you see it. Osita Nwanevu is out, but so is Sean McElwee.
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Why are so many white people out? One reason: although we don't think of ourselves this way, we are... postcolonial. A lot of people still want to Do It Right, like the Civilized Intellectuals of Europe.
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"We're a shitty little podunk country with no culture, no intellectual tradition, populace of inbred savages, and so many GUNS (ew!!!!!!)" -- colonial mindset!
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Tom Wolfe diagnosed American colonial mindset in 1970s. Today it is stronger than ever...pic.twitter.com/UrxDItJFWE
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