Republicans, rightwing figures and foreign politicians have seized upon the video despite proof the lawmaker was misquoted

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    9 months ago

    It absolutely does give the correct translation. Literally the third paragraph of the article:

    According to the Minnesota Reformer, a Minnesota-based news outlet, which worked with two independent Somali translators, Omar said: “We are people who know that they are Somali and Muslim”, not that she was “Somalians first” as the video suggested.

    How many Somali translators did “the other side” use?

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      9 months ago

      How many Somali translators did “the other side” use?

      Several, but lots of other intermediates were involved. At one point, they actually arrived at exactly this!

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      9 months ago

      I was looking for that but somehow I thought that was the initial translation and not the corrected one. I guess they just did not give the initial one used outside of politician comments. So my bad but I really wish news articles were written differently.