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Was the cruelty the point?
The Gray Area with Sean Illing
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The cruelty is the point was coined by adam server, one of our sharpest observers of race and american politics. Serwer recently released an anthology of his writings during the trumper with his famous essay on cruelty at the centre. For him, individual cruelty isn't really the problem. The structure of American politics itself is cruel. Indeed, cruelty has been weaponized. Why is cruelty so damned effective? And can we ever truly get rid of im?
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