The American social landscape is painfully pocked with overconfidence and denials of public truth. The denials of both police and protester violence, denials of the legitimacy of the 2020 presidential election, and the championing of “gender-affirming care” for children are examples of invincible obliviousness. In instances such as these the problems are not even recognized as problems by some, things requiring examination and thus open to better or worse responses. They are simply asserted not to be real.
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