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- Online support for #BlackLivesMatter is at an all-time high
DUBAI: George Floyd’s death while in custody of Minneapolis police sparked protests against racist violence and has sparked nations to reassess their stance on racism with the #BlackLivesMatter campaign spreading across the globe.
Online support for #BlackLivesMatter is at an all-time high, with millions of people using the hashtag daily, peaking at 8.8 million during the day Floyd died, according to a Pew Research Center analysis.
But how much #BlackLivesMatter resonate in the Arab world?
An Arab News Twitter poll, with almost 3,000 votes, asking whether Arabs are racist or not was almost split down the middle.
Islam does not discriminate people on the basis of color, one of the respondents said, while another commented that racial prejudice was a reality in every part of the world, even Arabs, thought they “are minority all over the world.’
About 54.4 percent of the respondents said Arabs were not racist, while 45.6 percent thought otherwise.
Twitter user @PlatinumOmar was even more succinct in his comment: “It should be all lives matter. Not just a specific color. All people regardless of color, race, gender, religion, nationality are equal.”
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