Max Fisher

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Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

"American exceptionalism" began as an ideological justification for the US to become an outright colonial power while squaring the annexation of foreign territory with America's early self-image as an opponent of European colonialism. Not as a force for democracy or freedom. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted April 23, 2020

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The story of where those two ideas came from, and how they became fused, is often mistold as emerging from Puritanism, or WW2, or the Cold War. In fact, they were originated as justification for seizing Cuba and the Philippines in the Spanish-American war. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted April 23, 2020

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The origin of American exceptionalism is often traced to a 1900 speech by Sen Albert Beveridge, arguing for annexing the Philippines because God “has marked the American people as his chosen nation to finally lead in the redemption of the world.” https://t.co/nIyr11wk3o — PolitiTweet.org

Posted April 23, 2020 Deleted