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Mandela Barnes: “It's not transgender students who have been getting away…”

Featuring: Mandela Barnes, Democratic | Former Candidate, U.S. Senate Wisconsin

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Published | Video Starts at 15:11

It's not transgender students who are going to Iraq or, excuse me, Iran, waging a war that's driving up oil and gas prices. It's not transgender students who have been getting away with tax breaks that have created the world's first trillionaire and destabilizing our entire economy. Now, the problem is, as I mentioned, the fact that these students have been scapegoated, have been made to feel less than have been made to feel as if they are other or they don't belong. (15:11–15:21)

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Asserts that transgender students are not responsible for tax breaks leading to economic destabilization.

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