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“Some of the customers would ask me, “Why are Kurds so hated in Turkey and Iraq?” As if I were responsible for dissecting idiocy and ignorance, as if cruelty and racism had a philosophical theory I was supposed to recite because I belonged to its victimized group. No one ever asked, “How does it feel to be a Kurd in a hateful world?”

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HateRacismPropagandaForeign PolicyColonialismAmerican PoliticsConspiracy TheoriesMisrepresentationRepresentation Of MinoritiesHolywood
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