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On the recordMay 14, 2019
And I could not help but--as much as I tried to dig in and explain, I could not help but feel and see that attacks committed by Muslim Americans were almost automatically labeled as domestic terrorist incidents, yet White supremacist shooting after shooting after shooting is not.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Democratic · New York

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Ocasio-Cortez highlights bias in labeling domestic terrorism based on the identity of the perpetrators.

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