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Re:Sequoia COO quit over Shaun Maguire's comments about Mamdani by cholantesh on Wednesday October 22, 2025 @05:57PM (#45675669)
Islamism is also neither a 'culture' nor a reasonable characterization of Mamdani's political programme.
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Re:Sequoia COO quit over Shaun Maguire's comments about Mamdani by jaybrendansmith on Wednesday October 22, 2025 @06:16PM (#45675863)
His program is actually pretty Christian imo.
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Re:Sequoia COO quit over Shaun Maguire's comments about Mamdani by energy123 on Thursday October 23, 2025 @03:23AM (#45679151)
That is true but it must always be possible to crticize Islamism whereas the comment I was replying to was attempting to construct a taboo against it.
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Re:Sequoia COO quit over Shaun Maguire's comments about Mamdani by cholantesh on Thursday October 23, 2025 @11:08AM (#45682730)
No it wasn't. It understood correctly that Maguire was making a deliberate conflation and treated it accordingly.
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