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- news@lemmy.world
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- news@lemmy.world
Following Democratic Socialist Zohran Mamdani’s decisive victory in New York City’s Democratic mayoral primary on Tuesday, most New Yorkers are rejoicing over the sound walloping he dished out to former governor and accused sex pest Andrew Cuomo. Outside of the city, right-wing lawmakers and influencers have seized on Mamdani’s Muslim identity and responded to his win with a degree of Islamophobic hysteria not directed towards New York since the so-called “Ground-Zero Mosque” caused nuclear meltdowns on Fox News in 2010.
“New York City has fallen,” Donald Trump Jr., the eldest child of President Donald Trump, wrote on Wednesday, quoting a post from another user claiming they were “old enough to remember when New Yorkers endured 9/11 instead of voting for it.”
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) posted an AI-generated image depicting the Statue of Liberty wearing a black burka with the caption: “This hits hard.”
Greene’s fellow congressional stunt artist Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) posted a photo of Mamdani dressed in a kurta — a garment worn by men in Southeast Asia — while attending an Eid service at the Parkchester Islamic Center in the Bronx. “After 9/11 we said ‘Never Forget.’ I think we sadly have forgotten,” Mace wrote.
Is it February? Because there are an awful lot of snowflakes around.
I don’t think MAGA is aware of the Streisand Effect.