Even though most people were disconnected from [travel ban], the moment amplified a fairly massive and somewhat irrational … - Peter van Agtmael

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Peter van Agtmael

Even though most people were disconnected from [travel ban], the moment amplified a fairly massive and somewhat irrational fear that exists in the populace at large.

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Nothing is over until there's something more decisive than your own thoughts.

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I think a lot of the work I've done and a lot of the work I'm going to do in the future still ties to 9
11 and the fallout from it.

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The big question that everyone is asking themselves, or what they should be asking themselves right now, is what role has the media played in not just missing a certain part of American society that wanted to vote for, say, Donald Trump, but what role has the media played in dehumanizing other people and helping create these conditions that people are so afraid of, say, Muslims and extremism?

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Sometimes the picture is more interesting than what is going on. Sometimes the picture is suggestive of greater things in society or the history of what might be connected to the theme in the pictures and those are worth exploring.

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The travel ban that was imposed by the [Donald Trump] administration is a very direct reverberation of 9
11.

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