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The ugly face of US exceptionalism
The insurrection at the Capitol was not ‘an abberation’ – but is symptomatic of a nation whose history and culture are filled with violence and injustice, says LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
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WHEN incoming US president Joe Biden took to the podium following the violent and illegal January 6 insurrection at the US Capitol, he reiterated what he and most US citizens believe the country represents: a “beacon of light and hope for democracy.”
Biden declared that the US’s reputation as the apotheosis of freedom had been besmirched by the actions of outgoing US President Donald Trump’s supporters, who, incited by the president himself, stormed the US Capitol.
This deep-rooted mythology, effectively US exceptionalism, stakes a place for the US in the world as the bearer of freedom and liberty, and as morally superior to other countries.
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