Laughably dramatic but painfully true. It’s not zero sum game.

And how’s that status quo working out given that we are on a thread about…more blatant corruption from the Adams administration? The De Blasio—Adams years have been a disaster.

I care a lot more about whether someone votes than whether they would be a competent administrator and effective leader. I think there’s a valid argument against Yang as a CEO and campaign leader, where he gave multiple competing executive titles to different people ( MLK III, Neha Sasha Ahuja, some other political consultant whose name I forgot). But the voting argument appealed only to a small amount of activists who were distraught that their political machine could be disrupted by someone who launched his political career from a podcast. Ross Barkan explained Yang’s threat clearly:

“First, let’s pause for a moment and reflect on what it would mean if, indeed, Yang wins the June 22nd Democratic primary and coasts in the general election against nominal Republican opposition. He will have demonstrated the hollowness of most political institutions in the five boroughs. An entrepreneur who got famous running for president and hardly bothered to vote in New York at all, Yang was able to capture, in a matter of months, constituencies that ladder-climbing political lifers could not, despite their many attempts. It only took four months or so for Yang to completely lock up the Hasidic vote in Borough Park, Brooklyn, for example, despite the fact that Adams and Stringer have been pandering to this community for years, and Stringer once cheered on rocket attacks on Gaza. That work, clearly, was for naught. Yang gave ground on all their issues to a distressing degree, particularly on BDS and Palestine, but most Democrats have been doing that for a while. The Hasidic leaders are a pragmatic bunch and they clearly see the writing on the wall. This Yang guy, who they had barely heard of before January, might be going places.”

And yes, the xenophobia against Asian-American candidates from the white establishment is real. Look at how NPR received Wu’s win in the much better run Boston: https://www.npr.org/2021/11/16/1055972179/boston-first-black-mayor

Ok whatever you say dude. Enjoy the rest of the Adams/Bragg administration

dont read this guys post submission history

edit: why are you a four year old account who has only started commenting less than a year ago with more than 10 comments a day, with every comment being related to biking, crime, or political candidates?

and almost every comment is in nyc or newyorkcity

There are 1.6 million Jewish people in NYC which has a total population somewhere between 8 and 9 million people in total.

Technically speaking, nobody ever needs to meet with any minority groups. But if you're trying to win an election for public office, it's probably a good idea to do so if that minority group is significant enough in size. Like looking at your list, I would say that someone should meet with an Indian organization (200,000+ in NYC), but probably not a Guatemalan (70k in the whole state), Mongolian, or Cambodian (can't find population figures for those groups) organization. In lieu of a Guatemalan, Mongolian, or Cambodian organization, they should meet with a Hispanic/Latino or Asian organization.

From a civics point of view, no, there is no obligation to meet with these organizations. I do think that candidates should meet with all of them. I’ve also recently heard a good argument that to some extent, Native American tribes get better representation because they actually have elected leaders who are politically accountable ( through the elections) to the communities they claim to represent—-as opposed to a patchwork of self-appointed “leaders”

Nevertheless, public snubs determine whose concerns are to be taken seriously and who should be shunned or scapegoated. Jews have been kicked out of practically every European and middle eastern country—-and many of us are sensitive to pogroms coming to America ( we’ve already seen pogroms in Newark and South Boston, where the Jewish communities were ethnically cleansed in the late 60s)

For example of how snubbing Jewish leaders contributes to anti-semitism, you have the example of CUNY which is a hotbed of harassment for Jewish students and faculty. When the city council called the CUNY president for a meeting, he just snubbed them ( https://nypost.com/2022/06/30/cuny-boss-a-no-show-as-jewish-students-decry-anti-semitism/ ) tacitly allowing harassment of Jewish students at cuny.

Meeting Jewish organizations would be going above and beyond.

If AOC and the likes just stopped with the antisemitism, that would be a great start. Not a very high bar, but it’s a start.