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“From the right, you get demagogues shouting about brown-skinned anchor…” quote by Eric Liu — Download Open image

“From the right, you get demagogues shouting about brown-skinned anchor babies and clamoring to deport the undocumented. From the left, you get advocacy for the oppressed but otherwise, when it comes to national civic identity, mainly silence.”

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