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Zohran Mamdani wrote about his frustrations that white women were "impossible to talk to" because of his skin.
Mamdani’s Bowdoin column did not say “white women.” It said he thought “certain types of girls” were hard to talk to, and the post changes that wording.
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The cited Mamdani writing is his May 2, 2014 Bowdoin Orient op-ed. In that article, he wrote that he once thought “certain types of girls were impossible to talk to” because of his skin tone. The original text does not say “white women.”
That distinction matters here because the X post presents this as if Mamdani explicitly wrote about white women, when the underlying article uses a different and broader phrase. The post is therefore not an accurate characterization of the source text.
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- On the 50th anniversary of MLK's visit to campus, let's acknowledge what we still need to achieve - The Bowdoin Orient
While I am now comfortable in my own skin, I can remember wishing for whiteness my first year when I thought certain types of girls were impossible to talk to due to my skin being more kiwi than peach.
Abdul El-Sayed wrote about the harms of Arab women dating White men in college.
The paper shown in the post is not about college dating. It is a 2011 epidemiology study of preterm birth among Arab-American mothers using Michigan birth records.
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The image in the post shows El-Sayed’s paper “Interethnic mating and risk for preterm birth among Arab-American mothers.” According to the PubMed abstract, it is a public-health study of 21,621 births to Arab-ethnicity women in Michigan between 2000 and 2005. It examines whether paternal non-Arab ethnicity was associated with preterm birth risk.
That is not the same as “writing about the harms of Arab women dating White men in college.” The paper is about birth outcomes among Arab-American mothers, not college dating, and its exposure variable is paternal non-Arab ethnicity rather than “White men” specifically.
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- Interethnic mating and risk for preterm birth among Arab-American mothers: evidence from the Arab-American Birth Outcomes Study - PubMed
We assessed the relationship between interethnic mating and risk for PTB, very PTB, and late PTB among AE mothers. Data was collected for all births (N = 21,621) to AE women in Michigan between 2000 and 2005... paternal non-Arab ethnicity was associated with higher risk of PTB.