Sanchez rejects French’s appearance-based inference
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“Those students weren’t a ‘problem.’ Judging someone by their appearance and assuming they are foreigners is wrong, un-American, and has no place in our party or our state.”
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Sanchez explicitly responds to French’s post and rejects inferring foreign status from the apparent appearance of people in the image.
Before the quotation
French had posted an image of apparent South Asian UT fans, called what it showed a problem, and later connected the image to foreign displacement and UT admissions.
After the quotation
The reaction added to the public dispute over whether French’s post treated appearance as evidence of foreign status.
How this statement is classified
Responding to: French’s posts demeaned the pictured people because of their race or ethnicity.
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Why this label?
Sanchez directly condemns the appearance-based inference at issue in French’s post.
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