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If confirmed, Dilawar Syed will become the highest-ranking Muslim-American official in history. Why won’t Republicans allow a vote?
Successful Silicon Valley entrepreneur Dilawar Syed is the quintessential American success story.
As a nation, if we were to elect a poster-child for American exceptionalism, Dilawar Syed would be the perfect candidate.
“American exceptionalism” gets a bad rap, perhaps undeservedly. The ideal may have been coopted by nationalists, but we shouldn’t let them have it without a fight.
American exceptionalism isn’t an argument for bigotry, white supremacy, or even nationalism. American exceptionalism is perhaps the best argument against those things.
You don’t have to be born in America to be a sterling example of American exceptionalism; on the contrary. Plenty of truly exceptional contributors to the U.S. have hailed from other nations. Exceptional Americans have arrived from all walks of life, every conceivable background and ethnicity.
In America, if nowhere else, a young man from Pakistan like Dilawar Syed can arrive on a student visa, receive a first-class education surrounded by the corn fields of the mid-west, move to California and take Silicon Valley by storm.