Zohran Mamdani is surrounding himself with racialist fools
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Another day, another blow to Zohran Mamdani’s carefully airbrushed image as a herald of the post-woke, post-racialist Left. Yesterday, the X account Libs of TikTok revealed that Cea Weaver, Mamdani’s newly appointed tenant-protection tsar, has equated homeownership with “white supremacy”. The obvious implication is that private property must be abolished on anti-racist grounds.
In 2019, Weaver wrote on her since-deactivated Twitter (now X) account: “Private property including and kind of ESPECIALLY homeownership is a weapon of white supremacy masquerading as ‘wealth building’ public policy.”
That statement was left out of a glowing write-up of Weaver and her work published in today’s New York Times , which mostly discussed landlord abuses in places such as Brooklyn. On his first day in office, Mamdani himself, accompanied by Weaver, visited a rent-stabilised studio unit in Flatbush, where he inspected a cracked floor and other telltale signs of disrepair (the complex is owned by the Pinnacle Group, which declared bankruptcy last year).
Neglectful landlords are indeed a scourge of the Gotham housing market. That’s even if upkeep is at times hindered by government-imposed rent ceilings and lopsided laws that make it all but impossible to evict tenants who don’t pay rent, as the industry insists. Tackling such landlords is one thing, but it’s quite another to frame all homeownership as a form of racism, as the new tenant tsar has.
In New York, a third of African American families and a fifth of Hispanic families own their homes, according to the city’s Commission on Racial Equity . Many more people of colour aspire to ownership, and the city boasts plenty of black and brown landlords. Are these homeowners and would-be homeowners engaged in white supremacy?
It’s the sort of nonsense that used to float about in Left-wing circles during the era of “peak woke”, roughly between the second half of the first Trump administration and the early Biden years. But then this sort of absurdity began to wane — especially with Trump’s second election victory, which saw him garner votes from just under half of Hispanic men. Mamdani did as well as he did, in part, by playing down woke themes and focusing relentlessly on the cost-of-living crisis confronting new migrants and educated white citizens alike.
But since his election, there have been dispiriting signs that he plans to govern as a classic Left-wing racialist. Hiring Weaver — a member of his inner circle, per the Times — is Exhibit A. Her rhetoric is nothing short of a kind of latter-day “socialism of fools”. That was how the German socialist leader August Bebel characterised antisemitism, himself crediting the Left-wing Austrian politician Ferdinand Kronawetter with the phrase.
Instead of analysing unjust economic systems, antisemitism (and all forms of racialism) blames one racial group: as if, for example, industrial bosses a century ago needed Jewish inspiration to lord it over their workers. Or, in this case, as if lousy landlords aren’t to be found in non-white countries or among minorities in white countries. If he wants to be taken seriously as a model of how the Left can win in the post-2024 environment, Mamdani would do well to part ways with Weaver.
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Fresh off promising his voters the warm embrace of an ideology that killed 100 million people last century, Mamdani appointed a racist who hates private property.
Things are going great...
"Private property including and kind of ESPECIALLY homeownership is a weapon of white supremacy masquerading as ‘wealth building’ public policy.""
I don't know if she has some sort of learning disability and just regurgitates concepts that get her positive feedback, but regardless, putting anyone who would publish this anywhere near any authority is a gross abuse of power.
White grievers have such tender feelings.
[✘] Do you think owning a house is a weapon of white supremacy?
No, nor do I think the new whatever she is will try and end home ownership.
Do you believe calling home ownership white supremacy is a rational belief? Is someone who believes such racist nonsense fit for public service?
o I think the new whatever she is will try and end home ownership.
Do you think someone who believes home ownership is white supremacy will use their powers to hurt homeowners, or help them, even if they can "end home ownership". Do you think she will be fair and impartial in dealing with home owners?
If we judged people by their tweets Trump would have been ejected from the national scene 10 or 15 years ago.
Can you answer with anything other than a silly deflection to trump?
Can you seed anything that does not promote the 'victimhood' of white people?
Do you ever actually criticize the racists in your party or do you just exclusively attack people for noticing the rampant racism?
Were Bull Connor's defenders this committed to attacking people for complaining about racism?
One can talk about white supremacy without being a racist. End of story.
Lol. If you want to argue that someone who claims a goal of impoverishing the white middle class isn't a racist, go right ahead. My work is done. There's really nothing left for me to say.
It would seem to me that the first question here is "does she actually believe this bullshit or is this just nonsense she spouts to win favor among gullible morons?" Let's face it, Bernie Sanders made a career out of advocating for shit he knows full well will never work. AOC is his heir-apparent. So there is an established political strategy here.
I don't think Zohran believes 10% of what he claims.
I think there will be a very large difference between what they'll do and what they'll pretend they have done.
She said it before Mamdani was running or she had a chance at office. Does being a racist make her popular among Democratic socialists? Sure...
I just saw that this morning. Dating back to 2018.
I'm just so glad I don't live there. Fucking hell. What a clown.
“ Impoverish the white middle class”…. I’ll give her credit, she actually says what they are trying to do while the rest of her party obfuscates.. So two points for at least being honest in her racism.
"Ms. Impoverish the white middle class" is the offspring off millionaires. Her mother own a house worth 1.6 million dollars. I'd bet no one is shocked by her background.
I think Mamdani is up against the equal protection clause of the Constitution.
The New York Times covered her today and called her a “Firebrand” and said she made controversial quotes. Guess how many of her racist tweets they included?
zero.
the NYT doing its best to keep their readers as ignorant as possible about their own team.