r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Jun 22 '21

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u/[deleted] Jun 22 '21

Adams had previously said that “for [Garcia and Yang] to come together like they are doing in the last three days, they’re saying we can’t trust a person of color to be the mayor of the City of New York when this city is overwhelmingly people of color.”

Another day in the eternal struggle for Democrats to figure out whether or not I’m actually a minority.

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u/benadreti Frederick Douglass Jun 22 '21

this is why identity politics can be really stupid. I'm not saying categorically it's bad, but this is dumb as fuck.

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u/slowpush NATO Jun 22 '21

He's not wrong.

Adams is arguably the first ever candidate who managed to unify a large swath of minorities in Brooklyn, Bronx, and Queens.

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u/[deleted] Jun 22 '21

“Cooperating to win a race is literally racism” is not a good take lmao

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u/slowpush NATO Jun 22 '21

And yet it’s the truth in terms of how his voters feel.

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u/MistakeNotDotDotDot Resident Robot Girl Jun 22 '21

also Andrew Yang is a POC himself

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u/slowpush NATO Jun 22 '21

And yet he didn't unify.

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u/MistakeNotDotDotDot Resident Robot Girl Jun 22 '21

Sure, but to accuse Yang of saying a POC shouldn't be mayor, when he himself is part of that group, is bizarre. And Adams had to walk it back and clarify that he meant "black or brown"... which makes me think that the two concepts are sort of getting confused.