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Another example of Color people gotta be Twice as Good to get Half as Far (discuss.online)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/peoplebluesky@lemmy.world
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[–] 53 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Mamdani isn't Arab; he's Indian. A quarter of the world would be offended by the implication these two groups are the same.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago* (3 children)

    Wouldn't be offended necessarily. He's Muslim and South Asian (parents are Gujurati and Punjabi) so it's easy to think that. We need to offer grace to people outside of our ingroup. They're going to know less and that's ok. Just like I don't know if O'Keefe is Irish, Scottish or Potato.

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

    He's not an Arab.

    Conflating being a Muslim with being Arabian is a good habit to break.

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

    I thought he was from Uganda lol I wouldn't have called him arab or indian

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