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Seriously. This is horrible. I am a member of a small opposition party in Turkey you few probably know and I find Mr. Biden's statements offensive.

If the U.S. government tries to "help" the opposition, it'll only work to undermine us.
Also, @JoeBiden help yourself first. We don't know if you'll even win in November.

Once you prove your mettle, then you can lecture us.
Yes, Mr. Erdoğan did get blown out in İstanbul last year (twice!!!) and not because anyone--certainly not the Americans--helped the opposition. #StayInYourLane
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It is beautifully ironic that @DavidOBowles’s hit job on @jeaninecummins’s #AmericanDirt—in which he criticizes her book for cultural appropriation and poor Spanish dialogue—uses “Latinx” to refer to people from Latin America. nytimes.com/2020/01/27/opi… While Bowles is no doubt… /1
…a well-regarded Mexican-American author and translator w/the expertise to criticize Cummins’s work on the merits, it’s hard to take his complaints of “white saviorism” + bad Spanish seriously when he offers no evidence of it and himself uses a term almost no Hispanics use…/2
…to describe themselves. thinknow.com/blog/the-great… I sincerely doubt many of Bowles’s Latino/a neighbors in the Valley use "Latinx," regardless of their education, income or immigration status; at least that’s my experience here. Indeed, some Latinos view “Latinx” as itself…. /3
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