1/ I really worry about state power and identity. Most Americans have only anecdotal experience of identity-based persecution, so it doesn’t feel real and there’s a sense of “it can’t happen here”.

2/ And therefore, conversations about dystopian identity outcomes seem theoretical and distant. There’s no appetite to engage these realities. Tho I don’t understand why Americans have so much optimism (or complacency?) about the endurance of benign government. Foolish. Anyway.