It's Time to Let Go of 'African American'

Re:It's Time to Let Go of 'African American' by Avshalom on Friday July 11, 2025 @09:36AM (#44531981)

NYT trying desperately to justify using hacked material (against their own stated policies) and giving a nazi psuedonymity (against policy) to try and gin up a scandal about a popular candidate.

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Re:It's Time to Let Go of 'African American' by inerte on Friday July 11, 2025 @09:43AM (#44532066)

I am not up to date to your first 2 statements, but my impression after reading the article is that it’s saying it was alright for Mamdani to say he’s African American.

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Re:It's Time to Let Go of 'African American' by femiagbabiaka on Friday July 11, 2025 @09:43AM (#44532064)

I agree that the phenomenon you’re speaking of is happening, but this column argues that Zohran did nothing wrong. Of course it does so along racial sectarian lines (African-American is exactly as meaningful as White American) but nonetheless.

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Re:It's Time to Let Go of 'African American' by cholantesh on Friday July 11, 2025 @10:30AM (#44532554)

I mean they published Bari Weiss for a long time.

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Re:It's Time to Let Go of 'African American' by burnt-resistor on Friday July 11, 2025 @05:53PM (#44537139)

Well, they also railroaded Chris Hedges for not beating the drums to war based on fictional evidence.

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