"What most of us know about the heartland barely extends beyond Dorothy's house in Kansas, or Sarah Palin pablum about 'real Americans.'"—New York Times contributor Timothy Egan, in a piece headlined "How to Heal the Heartland."
"Us." What a neat definition of "us."
A definition that excludes all of "us" who actually live in the place about which "we" know nothing.
It's really great how someone who writes the people who inhabit "the heartland" out of existence is given an extraordinary platform to write a piece about "how to heal" it.
My contempt for this shit cannot be measured on a scale fathomable by human intellect.
[H/T to Sarah Kendzior, via Sydette.]
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