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Palling Around With Alleged War Criminals

Started by washingtonindependent · 8 months ago

Let me add to DeLong’s post. First, the idea that there is anything at all unseemly about “associating” with Rashid Khalidi is — why mince words — racist.
As Matt Duss points out, Khalidi is a respected professor of Middle Eastern stu ... Continue reading »

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  • kouji

    8 months ago

    this is truly unfortunate. i am not american, but i still like to believe that america is indeed a place where an ordinary american citizen can make a good life for himself i only he puts in the effort to do so.

    apparently, however, there are some people who believe that that isn't so. so that if you are someone with a different sounding name, with a more foreign kind of past, then you are not even someone that a respectable american should be seen to be associating with.

    i am glad that there is a lot of pushback here. where articles like this strongly disagree with such a notion, where an elder republican can say that being a muslim american should not be a handicap, and where it looks like many, many americans are choosing the candidate of hope over the one of division, then i feel my faith in the notion of the united states isn't entirely misplaced.
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  • Mike Licht

    8 months ago

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