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Re:A Twitter thread sparked a lawsuit against Nieman Lab’s f... by nec4b on Wednesday July 21, 2021 @03:32PM (#27910982)
>>Calling an ethnicity of people "scum" and to "deport" them is harmful behavior.

Being a Muslim has nothing to do with ethnicity.

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Re:A Twitter thread sparked a lawsuit against Nieman Lab’s f... by ceejayoz on Wednesday July 21, 2021 @05:17PM (#27912326)
American Muslims are 26% white, versus an overall American percentage of between 61% and 77% depending on who you count. Pretending there's nothing to do with ethnicity is hard to sustain.
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Re:A Twitter thread sparked a lawsuit against Nieman Lab’s f... by p_j_w on Wednesday July 21, 2021 @04:27PM (#27911695)
If you're using the word "ethnicity" as a proxy for race, then no. But "ethnicity" doesn't just mean race, and GP may well have been using the word in that manner.
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