> In an interview with New York Magazine published Tuesday, Adams said the "defund the police" movement is led not by people of color in the Big Apple, but rather by young white professionals.
Adams is absolutely correct. He ran on a common-sense approach to policing, and won every non-white constituency in NYC. Maya Wiley supported defunding and her base was affluent white professionals: https://nypost.com/2021/07/04/nyc-mayor-race-shows-its-well-...
> But despite her leftish credentials, Wiley won only 22 percent of first-choice votes. She carried no assembly districts in Manhattan or The Bronx and none with large black percentages.
Calling criticism of defunding the police “racist” is an classic example of how left-wing white people (and non-whites platformed mainly by white people, whether in the media or academic) invoke the moral authority of purporting to speak people of color to push their own agendas.
It’s amazing to me that mostly-white progressive activists pushed so hard for defunding this last year, employing every aggressive tactic like rioting and political intimidation. They completely ignored what minority communities want and need in service of their ideological goals. There was a past discussion on HN (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24275500) about how polls show that Black Americans overwhelmingly want policing to stay the same or increase, an inconvenient piece of data that was given little emphasis on news or social media, and ignored by politicians. In the end numerous cities defunded police departments anyways and the result was a predictable surge in crime. The failure of society to communicate and hold civil discourse just makes me sad and leaves me with little faith that our political process is more than just random noise.
rayiner|4 years ago
> In an interview with New York Magazine published Tuesday, Adams said the "defund the police" movement is led not by people of color in the Big Apple, but rather by young white professionals.
Adams is absolutely correct. He ran on a common-sense approach to policing, and won every non-white constituency in NYC. Maya Wiley supported defunding and her base was affluent white professionals: https://nypost.com/2021/07/04/nyc-mayor-race-shows-its-well-...
> But despite her leftish credentials, Wiley won only 22 percent of first-choice votes. She carried no assembly districts in Manhattan or The Bronx and none with large black percentages.
Calling criticism of defunding the police “racist” is an classic example of how left-wing white people (and non-whites platformed mainly by white people, whether in the media or academic) invoke the moral authority of purporting to speak people of color to push their own agendas.
throwawaysea|4 years ago
DeliriumTrigger|4 years ago
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