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Why Won’t Zohran Mamdani Denounce a Dangerous Slogan?
Zohran Mamdani’s opponents paint him as a dangerous radical. The young, socialistic candidate for New York City mayor wishes to dispel that perception—in some ways. Last week, he appeared on a podcast with The Bulwark’s Tim Miller, a former Republican and the sort of moderate Mamdani knows he needs to win over, or at least neutralize, if he is to carry this week’s Democratic primary. As Miller presented a litany of concerns about Mamdani’s plans to freeze stabilized-housing rent, establish city-run groceries, and other offenses against Econ 101, the candidate expressed a willingness to hinge his policies on outcomes and abandon his plans if they failed.
"Dangerous radical" and its rent freeze and city-run stores, lol
But when Miller asked Mamdani about the pro-Palestine slogan “Globalize the intifada,” the candidate’s pragmatism and intellectual humility evaporated. “To me, ultimately, what I hear in so many is a desperate desire for equality and equal rights in standing up for Palestinian human rights,” he said.
Mamdani insisted to Miller, evasively, that he won’t repudiate globalizing the intifada because, as he put it, “the role of the mayor is not to police language.” Yet there’s no rule in politics that says a mayor or a candidate can’t criticize political rhetoric. Nor has Mamdani bound himself to such a prohibition: He has policed the terminology of his opponents by, for instance, complaining that he has faced “dehumanizing language” as a Muslim candidate for office.
"why doesnt the scary muslim share my foreign policy views but gets angry when im racist to him??"
with these guys, I wish this random do-(relatively)-nothing politician was the cool guy these fearmongers actually claimed he is.
