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

  • Flying Squid
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    178 months ago

    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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      8 months ago

      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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        228 months ago

        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?

        • HubertManne
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          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.