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One thing the Omar nonsense is highlighting is that some people seem to have wildly different emotional responses to trivially different phrasings of exactly the same idea.
After 9/11, we recognized *all* Muslims were seeing their liberties threatened because of something *some* people had done.

Totally fine!

After 9/11, we recognized *some* people did something, but *all* Muslims were seeing their liberties threatened.

Get the pitchforks!
It’s ridiculous to get upset about the second phrasing, of course, but it would be impossible to have the same media frenzy over the first phrasing, because structurally you can’t pull out “something some people had done” as a grammatically complete sentence to obsess over.
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