• Flying Squid
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    59 months ago

    BBC News NI has spoken to the intended victim, who we are calling Renas to protect his identity.

    What a bizarre choice of name.

    Apparently it’s Kurdish, so they wanted to imply to a small number of people that the person is a Kurd?

    • @essell
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      29 months ago

      Whilst I can see how people might infer that, I doubt there was any desire to imply any ethnicity

      • Flying Squid
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        39 months ago

        If that wasn’t the desire, it’s a very odd name to choose. Did they just use a random name picker?

        • @essell
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          09 months ago

          Is there any name that isn’t connected to a specific culture and wouldn’t trigger that reaction in some people?

          • Flying Squid
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            39 months ago

            Probably not. I didn’t mean to even suggest it would be a negative reaction necessarily. I just thought it was a very odd name choice and speculated as to why.