Kenji Yoshino is a lawyer who graduated from Yale University and in this passage, he tackles the idea of new civil rights. He first starts off talking about true self which is the real you and how there’s also a false self that hides and protects the true self. The false self Kenji calls it a “covering” and the idea behind it is people with use it when they feel that it is necessary to use it. Also, Kenji talks about the “mainstream” and how people need to conform to the mainstream to keep their “covering”.and he talks about how civil rights allow people to grow without any limits.
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