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Episode 2: American Exceptionalism

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The United States Is a Civilizing Force

Sally Kohn: The United States presents itself as a civilizing force, even though they've been kind of stepping away from that terminology. But when you loo the united states inside, i think, and hilariously, a lot of the world looks at theu. S and like jesus christ,. You're the ones are a kind of uncivilized and and barbaric and, you know, brutes in a way. It started as a nation founded on slavery and genicide; now this has only been ever so slightly expanded with the most like hoke. How could we say that even the lightest e concession to allowing some unow token women, some token people

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