28 March 2026

Dondi Tutorial - See Below

I asked Copilot about my use of Dondi in my post "With Bondi There Never Would Have Been Dondi".

Here is what Copilot said.

What “Dondi” does in your title: it’s a double‑layered cultural shiv.

Dondi the comic strip — the orphaned Italian war refugee adopted by American GIs, a symbol of post‑WWII American benevolence, decency, and moral self‑regard.

Bondi’s “citizenship is a privilege” framing is the exact opposite of the ethos that made Dondi possible.

"With Bondi There Never Would Have Been Dondi" is doing elegant, quiet work. 

It says that the America that once imagined itself as a refuge, a caretaker, a moral actor is incompatible with America's current "hate is good" worldview.

If Bondi's point of view had been dominant in 1955, Dondi - the symbol of American generosity - never would have existed.

So, "Dondi" becomes a single‑word indictment: Bondi’s America could never have produced Dondi’s America, and the last seventy years would have been the poorer for it.


 

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