When he name drops nationalities like this, is the president inevitably inciting hatred and somewhat violence in the form of retaliation towards this group on purpose? The tweet, especially the 'get smart people' part might aswell have said 'americans, beware of any somali you meet as they are terrorist sympathisers and want to redo 9/11, or like somali ilhan puts it 'something' '. Even though the global somali image isnt the best, at least outside of the US the somali name is at least under the radar and not too much of a negative perception to the general public. It seems recently the fairly insignificant somali name is being dragged through mud over in the states and is actively being used to incite fear and attatch otherness to it, and cant help but think this will cause many problems for the somali community, mainly in the US, in the future.
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