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On the recordJuly 10, 2025
If you talk to our LGBT community, you talk to our Black community, you talk to our Hispanic community, there are words and there are imagery and there are things that are said that they will hear and feel it as a dagger to their throat.
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Kirsten Gillibrand
Democratic · New York
Source
theintercept.com
Jul 10, 2025

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Gillibrand emphasizes the impact of language on various communities.

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