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Jan 8Edited

I guess what I was trying to say is that the American Enlightenment project does reconcile universal human rights with citizenship at least within the nation itself. To be American is not to be a particular ethnicity or follow a certain religion or even to speak a particular language. To be American is to believe certain basic Enlightenment principles about human equality. And besides, even patriotic Americans still believe that those who aren’t American are still human beings who are entitled to basic rights and freedoms, don’t they? Maybe I’m too Enlightenment brained to get this.

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