It's kind of a one-two punch since they may have confused the group with the actual Houthi tribe they're named after? Anyway, "race" can encompass cultures too when they are significant enough, i mean, plenty of European states get racist at each other when they're practically the same genetics
Clarification for future readers. They call themselves Ansar Allah, and 'Houthis' is western media derogatorily depopularising and demotivating the movement as Hussein al-Houthi's principle-less lackeys.
Western media consistently do this with all their opponents, finding a phrase that if you're unfamiliar is equivalent to how they wish to be known and addressed, but is offensive and antithetical to some part of their identity so that media friendly to them would never use it and thus never overlap as a source of knowledge to western readers.
It's kind of a one-two punch since they may have confused the group with the actual Houthi tribe they're named after? Anyway, "race" can encompass cultures too when they are significant enough, i mean, plenty of European states get racist at each other when they're practically the same genetics
Clarification for future readers. They call themselves Ansar Allah, and 'Houthis' is western media derogatorily depopularising and demotivating the movement as Hussein al-Houthi's principle-less lackeys.
Western media consistently do this with all their opponents, finding a phrase that if you're unfamiliar is equivalent to how they wish to be known and addressed, but is offensive and antithetical to some part of their identity so that media friendly to them would never use it and thus never overlap as a source of knowledge to western readers.