That we don t know where they live, we just know they re browner and maybe more dangerous and have bombs. part of that language of we can t beat anybody and we re losers also feed into this very american idealogy of competition, and there s no way that we can resolve conflicts with folks that overseas, that we can t have this global way of understanding each other s cross-difference, that we can t come to resolution. we always have to have an enemy. so this idea of the global world in our position, i think that s one of the other fears currently being stoked. the fear of others, one of the most controversial questions here, is about the response to the syrian refugee crisis, and in general how we think about refugees and immigrants. that s up next. now that s a full weekend.