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[–] twitch1982 0 points 5 points (+5|-0) ago 

prompting an African-American student to respond that black students are the most oppressed, to which a Muslim student made a comment about her people being bombed in the Middle East, according to Alvarez.

Because bombing ISIS has any effect on you as a student at Berkeley.

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[–] illuminalto ago 

I know they say we're "bombing ISIS", but we're also killing a lot of innocent people.

She is being sensational, but we are killing civilians AND arming terrorists who are killing civilians.

I don't want to make anyone's victimization more legitimate, but the bradley manning's "collateral murder" video says a bit.

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[–] twitch1982 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago  (edited ago)

Yea, I know civilians get killed, but that doesn't make her oppressed in California. Not that black college students are actually oppressed either.

It's like a Ukrainian kid in NY saying he's somehow oppressed because Russia is occupying the Crimea.

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[–] Ricoiyte ago 

I don't want to make anyone's victimization more legitimate,

That is what you are doing one way or another. Civilian casualties in war is not new. And i personally do not care.