Republicans, rightwing figures and foreign politicians have seized upon the video despite proof the lawmaker was misquoted

  • HubertManne
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    this is a bs comment. I have never known anyone to make a comment that their nationality first over america. Total pride in it sure and maybe something close like we are not just americans but X americans but not like it takes priority. Granted this comment is based on yours saying if she did say it so because moot in reality.

    • @surewhynotlem
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      Never heard a Texan say they’re Texan first American second?

    • 🔍🦘🛎
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      You heard em folks, burn all the “Kiss me I’m Irish” shirts for being un-American

      • @zerog_bandit
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        Those shirts aren’t being worn in the halls of Congress.

        • Flying Squid
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          Because you have to wear suits there…

          • @zerog_bandit
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            And yet Ilham Omar calls for genocide of Israelis in Congress…

    • Flying Squid
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      I have never known anyone to make a comment that their nationality first over america.

      Cool. That includes Ilhan Omar.

      • HubertManne
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        Maybe. The article does not give the “correct” translation so who knows. One side says omar said this and the other said no its not that.

        • Flying Squid
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          It absolutely does give the correct translation. Literally the third paragraph of the article:

          According to the Minnesota Reformer, a Minnesota-based news outlet, which worked with two independent Somali translators, Omar said: “We are people who know that they are Somali and Muslim”, not that she was “Somalians first” as the video suggested.

          How many Somali translators did “the other side” use?

          • @Viking_Hippie
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            211 months ago

            How many Somali translators did “the other side” use?

            Several, but lots of other intermediates were involved. At one point, they actually arrived at exactly this!

          • HubertManne
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            -211 months ago

            I was looking for that but somehow I thought that was the initial translation and not the corrected one. I guess they just did not give the initial one used outside of politician comments. So my bad but I really wish news articles were written differently.