Perhaps

An excerpt from a response by Heather Mac Donald in City Journal (Winter 2015) to a UCLA student who wrote that "our nation was founded on oppression of 'the other'":

"Perhaps Liao reached this harsh judgment based on a deep historical understanding of how other political systems have treated 'the other.' Perhaps she has evidence that African tribal societies, the Indian caste system, Chinese dynasties, the Muslim caliphate, the Aztecs, or the Comanche have been more welcoming of 'the other.' Perhaps Liao has read deeply in political theory from Aristotle through Montesquieu and Locke, acquired a thorough knowledge of the European monarchies that were contemporary to the early Republic, and on that basis found the Constitution's solution to enduring problems of power and political representation deplorably lacking. Perhaps. Or perhaps she has been soon-fed an embarrassingly facile, historically ignorant caricature of America by a few gender studies and African-American studies professors."