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the bushspeech of yesterday gives you a fair index of how the notion of unity can be used in an attempt to shut down spaces of legitimate political opposition.
i do not really care if america is divided or not in principle because i do not care about the notion of nation--i see it as a delusion, a form of collective mental disorder.
i do care about the right to dissent.
the way i see it, the whole handwringing about unity is a way of trying to frame as somehow natural divisions that are strictly political.
in this war of position, the right has a tactical advantage.
it will not last.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
-kamau brathwaite
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