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Identity Crisis

The most annoying thing about this guest commentary in the San Diego Union-Tribune is the way the paper identifies the authors: . . . Darwish, a San Diego County resident, is a Kuwaiti-born Palestinian-American. She…

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Union_tribThe most annoying thing about this guest commentary in the San Diego Union-Tribune is the way the paper identifies the authors:

. . . Darwish, a San Diego County resident, is a Kuwaiti-born Palestinian-American. She lived in occupied Palestine while teaching at Birzeit University.

Technically, these identifications are an expression of the paper itself. In reality, the vast majority of IDs are innocuously written by the authors and simply reprinted in the paper. Were Union-Trib editors asleep on the job, or did someone deliberately let this in?

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