It is more the reactionary bullshit that is being questioned. Derec has a godly level of awareness of every bad thing a person with colored skin has ever done in the US.
The bullshit here is the baseless aspersions you are casting. It's about DSA's extremist policies and the anti-western attitude many DSA cadres have - some of them informed by their 3rd world cultures.
But to reduce these things to skin color is facile, especially when somebody like Mamdani himself doesn't even have particularly colored skin. If he shaved, he'd be indistinguishable from paisanos in Little Italy.
Some person of questionable history getting a street named after them in Decatur? Derec is going to know who, what they have done, their criminal background.
Given that Decatur is practically next door, I do not see why I should not stay informed about local politics.
Why don't you castigate Adam Hamawy and Avila Chevalier?!
We (liberals, left-leaning moderates, moderates, centrists) don't even know who these people are!
Ignorance is not a virtue! We've discussed them in the 2026 Midterm thread when the NJ and NY primaries were happening, and now you claim to know nothing like some latter day Feldwebel Schultz.
They are shoo-in future congresscritters in ultrasafe D districts and they are both very extreme. DNC should not have allowed either of them to run in Dem primaries. Especially not Hamawy who was an associate of the Blind Sheikh, the Islamist responsible for the first WTC bombing.
With Hamawy there is another glaring issue - he got the nomination with <30% of the primary vote. That is very (small d) undemocratic.
We aren't on DSA's mailing list. We aren't particularly in the know on their platform. I know so much more about the Socialists at the turn of the Century in the US than today.
If we take this at face value, why aren't you better informed? It's not like they are a fringe party doing their own thing that therefore can be safely ignored. No, they are running a hostile takeover of many Dem nominations.
The one thing these people get right is that life is hard. They don't get the solutions quite right as they lack the necessary pragmatism regarding how money works.
They are not even in the right neighborhood. But you are talking here about their economic policies only. Their support for Islamic terrorism against Israel, and connections people like Hamawy have with terrorists against the US, should disqualify them altogether.
You want to cry out anti-Semitism. But it isn't anti-Semitism. One day, people are going to understand that far left anguish is over Israel Government policy, not "the Jews".
It is about "the Jews". If they don't believe that the only Jewish state has the right to defend itself against Islamic terrorism, and otherwise hold Israel to a different standard than they would any other country in the world, then that's antisemitism no matter how much they want to hide behind words like "antizionism". Same goes for excusing Arab imperialism and colonialism. Why are Jews from Poland or Yemen who settled in Judea in say 1920s and 30s "settler colonists", while Arabs from Yemen or Lebanon who settled in Judea in the 1920s and 30s "native"?
