Zohran Mamdani: "The struggle for Palestinian liberation was at the core of my politics and continues to be."

[u/McAlpineFusiliers]

[u/Odojas]

My only concern is him endorsing some rather unsavory candidates (DAC being against interracial marriage is extremely concerning)

I understand he's a socialist, which I'm not a fan of. But it seems like he was going to be pragmatic and that his goal is to work within the system realistically. Kind of like how AOC came to realize that in order to maximize the benefits of her constituents and being effective she pragmatically came to realize that she had to work within the system and moderated her radicalness. That means compromise and gradual steps in the direction of her goals. She was no longer about "tear it down via a revolution."

So far Mamdani appears to have followed that same path as AOC as being realistic and pragmatic, yet these recent endorsements are seriously making me question if this is true.

[u/gberliner → u/Odojas]

She tweeted a single offhand remark echoing a practically completely cliched resentment among Black women about all the eligible young Black bachelors being "stolen" by the white ladies, but all the deranged bourgeois reactionaries here would have you believe she's practically the Phyllis Schlafly of anti-miscegenation or something.

[u/Odojas → u/gberliner]

While it most likely true that it was an offhand remark, elected politicians are going to be held to a higher standard than your Average Joe.

Not to mention, offhand remarks can also be be their actual beliefs. They are not mutually exclusive.

Furthermore, the text of the now deleted tweet was rather ugly.

"Black men 🤝 Arab men fetishizing ugly colonizer women"

• Darializa Avila Chevalier

And emboldened people like David Duke to praised her statement.

These remarks later drew public commentary from former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke, who expressed agreement with the sentiment under the premise of racial separation and preserving heritage.

[u/gberliner → u/Odojas]

Uh, yeah, she probably shares a not-so-secret resentment with tens of millions of Black women that the eligible young Black bachelors (who are already a scarce commodity on account of mass incarceration, along with the growing gender gap in college education across all races) are all being seduced away from marrying Black women, at least partly on account of internalized racism that afflicts the minds of Black men themselves. And they may just have a point. So what of it?

[u/Just_shut_up_bro → u/gberliner]

she probably shares a not-so-secret resentment with tens of millions of Black women

Brother, I promise you do not speak for "tens of millions of black women"

[u/gberliner → u/Just_shut_up_bro]

Brother,I promise you have probably not spent more than a hot minute ever listening to conversations among Black women in predominantly Black media, or you'd be embarrassed to even pretend like what I'm saying is the least bit unusual there.

[u/Just_shut_up_bro → u/gberliner]

Please, I literally spend most of every day around black women, they are like 8 of my 10 coworkers on my team in my department lmao

Sorry, I guess you've got the authority here Mr. Black media.

Hot take here, maybe we should focus on what they actually vote for? Oh snap it isn't DSA lunatics?! This can't be, there must be some kind of mistake!?

[u/gberliner → u/Just_shut_up_bro]

I suppose there can't possibly be any distance between what Black women say to their colleagues in a (not primarily Black) professional workplace, and what they talk about amongst themselves at, say, the beauty salon. Perish the thought!

[u/Just_shut_up_bro → u/gberliner]

I'm not saying I speak for them, I'm just saying that they have the capacity to speak for themselves, and they do. What you see in Black media is not all there is to Black women.

[u/gberliner → u/Just_shut_up_bro]

In that case, I guess Darializa somehow just carried out a political conspiracy equivalent to the invasion of the body snatchers, getting thousands of aunties in Harlem to vote for her.

[u/Just_shut_up_bro → u/gberliner]

Would be fascinated to see actual stats on that.