August 6

Just a point of order: We like to measure America by its relative New Yorkness. Yougottaproblemwitdat? Joking aside, though, I have felt for awhile that New York under Bloomberg has approached some sort of American ideal. Culturally libertarian, fiscally prudent, entrepreneurial to the Nth, and, yes, genuinely tolerant in the adult “that’s life” way rather than the treacly “we are all one” way lip-serviced by patriotic scoundrels left and right. The Cordoba House affair just encapsulates the difference between our America and much of the rest of it. We got hit on 9/11. And we did not let it change us. I can’t say that for the rest of the country.
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Ain’t gonna let the terrorists win.

James Fallows (via soupsoup)

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  6. aatombomb said: I think the phrase “much of the rest of it” is not only fair, but true here. He’s not saying “the rest of America” is different from NYC, just most of it. It would be hard to disprove that.
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    Ain’t gonna let the terrorists win.
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