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At the time (maybe 8-9 years ago), I was like "Wow, that is the opposite of a real thing, but it sounds fabulous." Now it's a real thing.
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G. Willow Wilson
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G. Willow Wilson
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This story reminds me of my fave piece of hatemail, in which I was accused of being part of a socialist homosexual Muslim attack on America.
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G. Willow Wilson
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Only it isn't an attack on America; it's more like a passionate defense.
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G. Willow Wilson
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And it was made real in no small part thanks to the bigotries evident in that piece of hate mail. They created the very thing they feared.
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G. Willow Wilson
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So thank you, tin foil hat dude. I didn't think I would see these kinds of alliances in my lifetime. I'm glad to have been wrong.
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M. Darvin Rahmat
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We still have a long way to go here in South East Asia. 🙁
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Naomi Kritzer
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I live in a city with a lot of Muslim residents, and have been baffled for years that the Evangelical Christians never realized that
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Naomi Kritzer
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...they could have allied with them on a number of social issues? For years, anyway, this was an option.
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Naomi Kritzer
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But no, they decided to demonize the hell out of them instead.
So Somali immigrants are almost all Democrats, and have shifted left
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Naomi Kritzer
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on social issues, partly out of pragmatism and partly out of the sort of exposure you get when all your friends are liberals.
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Naomi Kritzer
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I am so glad to have Somali-Americans as part of the DFL. (And as part of my city and community.)
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Naomi Kritzer
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Alliances can be a weird and magical thing.
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Adrian Cohea
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You are made of so much win <3
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