The manner in which it has become normalized, and it is not exclusive to any one political party. It is endemic, frankly, to our politics. And What this kind of bigotry shows is a complete erasure of the million or so Muslims who call the city home. whose identity has often been one that they are made to feel as if is in tension with being a New Yorker. (06:20–06:27)
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Asserts that bigotry erases the identity of about a million Muslims in the city.
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