QUOTE · 2026-04-30

Martha C. Nussbaum — On why displaced anger forecloses honest deliberation about present workers

“A polity that has displaced its anger from its own institutions onto a foreign body cannot, in that moment, hear the testimony of the workers already inside its borders.”
— Martha C. Nussbaum — Displaced Fear: Taiwan, India, and the Bodies Already Missing

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Curated by Shiva Dragon · https://amshiva.com/writing/quote-nussbaum-a-polity-that-has-displaced-its-anger-from-20260430