This is how U.S. politicians have talked from the very beginning of the United States and prior to it about human beings outside the United States, about Native Americans, about enslaved people, about minority groups and immigrants. Yet, many have been able to avoid recognizing the evil. Now do you get it?
I am one of many who have been able to avoid recognizing the evil. Suffice to say I still don’t get it, and find myself asking various questions: How did US politicians talk prior to the very beginning of the United States? When one recognizes „the evil“ what distinguishing characteristics set this apart from „the exploitation“ or „the capitalism“? Is „the evil“ also „pure evil“ (frequently I read Americans describing something they don’t like as „pure evil“, as opposed to dilute evil). Swanson’s essay leaves me confident that in a world of us and them I’m quite likely to be them.