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Zohran Mamdani calls the president of Cuba and Venezuela “dictators who have stifled free and fair elections, jaled political opponents, and suppressed the free and fair press” (lemmy.ml)
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/38725765

https://www.latintimes.com/mamdani-breaks-silence-about-maduro-cuban-president-diaz-canel-how-jorge-ramos-daughter-paola-589809

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[–] 10 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Things are tense here, for sure, but you gotta take a deep breath and step back from it and know when the joke isn't a direct attack on you (unless it is), and try not to cheapen words like bigotry by defensively applying it to an arguably accurate depiction of many Americans. Don't prove their joke by missing the nuance yourself.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Turns out that prejudice is harmful even if it isn't negative, or even about you in particular.

    At least, that's what we've been saying about racial prejudice for a long time. Dunno when we forgot about that.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    It's still pretty shitty to judge an entire population and paint them with one generalized brush, no matter how you frame it. You assume my annoyance is personal but it's not.

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