Viet Thanh Nguyen
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1,011 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Sep 2025
last heard 7 May
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So some people would hear me say this kind of stuff, and they'll be like, oh, he's un-American.
I literally get messages from people saying, since you love the commies so much, go back to Vietnam.
They apparently did not read more than 10 pages of The Sympathizer because the novel was actually banned in Vietnam by the communist government.
So that's complexity.
Now, the complexity for me as an American is to recognize this is a beautiful country.
It's a country built on democracy, equality, liberty.
rights, all of which I've benefited from.
It's also a country built on brutality, genocide, colonization, enslavement, perpetual war.
These are facts.
Now, you can interpret them differently.
And in fact, people do interpret them differently.
Donald Trump interprets those facts as make America great again.
We conquered this country.
We're going to conquer the rest of the world.
It's not a problem.
We committed genocide, okay?
But the complexity is in recognizing that the beauty of this country was made possible by the brutality of this country.
That all the privileges that a certain part of the population enjoys, a large portion of people, women and enslaved people, didn't have those freedoms in the late 18th century.
And that dynamic continues with us today.
That complexity is unsettling for a lot of Americans.
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