I reject intolerance; the same intolerance that they act on and exhibit at the drop of a hat yet deny the existence of, all in the same breath. I reject this exclusivity, this othering of our own, the othering of the same bhais and behens we swore were our own by way of our shared Indian-ness; weren't we raised to believe this with the National Pledge of Allegiance that we recited by heart, in unison, while growing up? I reject this ideology that suggests only one community (