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COMMENTARY: Stop “Othering” | The Orlando Advocate

by Oscar Blayton, Esq. I wondered how long expressions of empathy would continue to be front and center in the minds of Americans following the hate-fueled multiple murders of Asian women in and near Atlanta, Georgia. To be clear, two of the victims ofRobert Aaron Long's homicidal mania were not of Asian ancestry. But their proximity to […]

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