There Is No Us Without A Them
How Toxic Inclusiveness Is Destroying Intimacy
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When I was interviewed about Maxwell a couple months ago a reporter led me down a line of questioning I’ve become accustomed to:
“So this is an exclusive establishment, it’s not accessible to everyone?”
“So no one from the community can just walk in and have a drink, you guys will only be letting in a certain clientele.”
Am I understanding correctly that Maxwell isn’t for everybody?
I had to chuckle — the questions were so leading, us VERSUS the local community and in favor of a certain EXCLUSIVE group of people that it was clear there was an agenda…
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