Suddenly, they are Christians again

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[–]HopeThatHalps 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

"Thoughts and prayers to the Passover worshipers in San Diego".

That works fine. Yet again, there's no reason to put the fact of their Jewishness ahead of their being human.

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so far not looking good

https://twitter.com/latimes/status/1122257399786565632

https://twitter.com/SDSU/status/1122252618842001408

https://twitter.com/NewYorkStateAG/status/1122248668311162880

[–]HopeThatHalps 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

How so?

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Mainstream Media sources and large twitter personalities aren't explicitly avoiding mentioning they are Jewish - in fact it's a main part of the tweet. We'll see what Obama and others do.

[–]HopeThatHalps 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

There's a difference between "the Jewish community", where this happened, and saying "the Jewish victims", the people who were killed. As I mentioned above, even Marco Rubio noted the terrorism happened in a Catholic church, without making a point to describe the victims as Christian.

So if inference is enough, then "Easter worshipers" should also be enough inference to guess that the victims in Sri Lanka were Christians.