For decades now, our nation’s colleges and universities have been less institutions of higher learning than they are indoctrination centers for the hard left. Instead of teaching our children how to think and evaluate ideas on their merits, leftist professors have been busy filling our children’s heads with Marxist agitprop and worse, propagandizing them to believe that the nation of their birth, the greatest and freest nation the world has ever known, is a sinister pesthole of colonialism, racism, and plutocratic exploitation of the poor.
The products of this indoctrination are everywhere among us these days, and they’re easier to spot than Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez at a Mensa meeting. Arrogant, smug, self-righteous, and just as certain that their circle of leftists is a force for good as they are that Amerikkka is bad, they now fill the halls of Congress and are increasingly present in state and local governments all across our unhappy land. One of the foremost among the new faces on the scene who will likely be plaguing patriots and threatening our freedoms for years to come is Zohran Mamdani, the man who is most likely to be the next mayor of New York City.
Though he denies the label, Mamdani is clearly a Communist, with some of his policy recommendations coming straight out of the Soviet playbook. Now some of his writings for his college newspaper at Bowdoin College have surfaced, and they give further insight into how typical a leftist Zohran Mamdani really is, and just how catastrophic he would be for New York City if (as seems quite likely) he becomes mayor. Zohran Mamdani is 33 years old, and has been out of college for over a decade; there does not, however, seem to have been even a dime’s worth of change or evolution in his thought since he was fighting against The Man at Bowdoin, and so his college writings are still illuminating of his mindset.
The first thing that jumps out at someone who reads Mamdani’s hyper-confident and surpassingly ignorant campus screeds is that he hated Israel then as much as he does now. That’s not surprising, as he co-founded a chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine while he was at Bowdoin. The National Students for Justice in Palestine website states that it is “supporting over two hundred Palestine solidarity organizations across occupied Turtle Island, we aim to develop a student movement that is connected, disciplined, and equipped with the tools necessary achieve Palestinian liberation.” “Occupied Turtle Island” is what particularly fanatical leftists call North America.
With this sort of nonsense filling his head, Mamdani called for an “academic and cultural boycott” that would “put pressure on Israeli institutions to end the oppressive occupation and racist policies within both Israel and occupied Palestine." He didn’t mention, of course, the genocidal jihad against Israel, or the fact that two million Arabs live in Israel with no restrictions on their rights; Israel has no “racist policies.”
Young Mamdani didn’t think very highly of his adoptive country, either. Fox News reports that “in a 2013 op-ed, Mamdani responded to a White student who took issue with criticism of the school’s editorial page being too White by accusing him of holding ‘white privilege.’" He claimed that “white males are privileged in their near-to-exclusive featuring as figures of authority in print, on television and around us in our daily realities. We, the consumers of these media, internalize this and so believe in the innate authority of a white male’s argument and the need for its publication. So, white privilege is both a structural and an individual phenomenon, the former propelling the latter. Therefore, even when the individual is silent, the structures continue to exist and frame our society through their existence."
Yeah, yeah, blah, blah. Mamdani was writing this while attending an elite college after his family was welcomed into the United States and given every opportunity to succeed. No one at Bowdoin College or anywhere else ever told Zohran Mamdani that he could never get ahead in America because he wasn’t “white.” He never lost out on an opportunity because of his race or background or immigration status; quite the contrary. Yet when he got to Bowdoin, he used his time there to whine about an oppression he never experienced.
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Mamdani complained that the "pervasive male whiteness" of the campus newspaper for which he was writing "builds on the sadly still-present white male monopolization of both discourse and understanding." Uh, yeah, except you were writing that, Mr. Mamdani, and it got published.
Undaunted by reality, Mamdani continued: "While whiteness is not homogenous, white privilege is. This privilege is clear in not having to face institutional racism in access to housing subsidies, college grants, financial institutions, or civil rights. It allows a white person to universalize his own experiences. It restricts society’s ability to understand its flaws, and projects a false image of meritocracy upon a nation built on institutional racism."
Yeah, poor fellow, such racism he has suffered. This is, of course, all Marxist agitprop. As Christopher Rufo has explained, when faced with the failure of Communism to overrun the West, “Marxist scholars in the West simply adapted their revolutionary theory to the social and racial unrest of the 1960s. Abandoning Marx’s economic dialectic of capitalists and workers, they substituted race for class and sought to create a revolutionary coalition of the dispossessed based on racial and ethnic categories.” Mamdani is still at it, and is about to inflict it upon the nation’s largest city. Brace yourself.
