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Your example provides its own counterexample. The same individual has encountered persistent questioning over the specifics of his birthplace, despite ample documentation substantiating his claims.

How information is interpreted depends very much on who's interpreting it and what their objectives are.

Hiring processes are notoriously opaque. Corporations are, very literally, machines for creating one-way flows of liability, shielding management and owners at the expense of the public and workers. What do you think the term "limited liability corporation" refers to? How many NDAs have you signed? What are your workplace's rules regarding disclosure of employment terms and/or compensation?




Perhaps, but it's hard to imagine private-citizen Obama not getting hired because of his birth certificate.


It's far too easy to imagine private-citizen Obama not getting hired because of his birth certificate, legally, as recently as 1964.

There's a credible case to be made that much of the present opposition he faces stems from the same root cause.




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