COVID-19 has shown us that we’re all interconnected and that the actions of one community affects everyone else. The Amish aren’t self-sufficient and separated from the modern world: they go to the grocery store, sell things, interact with the non-Amish, and depend 100% on the outside world to survive.
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By granting the Amish special privileges on the basis of a falsified depiction of innocence and two-dimensionality, the US government mocks those aspects that are genuinely beautiful about Amish culture.
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A central message of the film is that wanting rights for practicing Amish women and girls is an attack on the faith, but taking away their rights is just religious freedom.
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This documentary gives more inner life and personality to horses than women. The quotes uphold a particular status quo that tells the outside world to think of the Amish as quaint “others”, rather than as fully formed, complex people and deserving of human and Constitutional rights.
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We’ve compiled a list of some of the best ways to learn more about the Amish today and the nuances of their lives.
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