Eric Adams: Gen Z backers of Mamdani are ‘radicalized, hate US’
www.independent.co.uk
Mayor Eric Adams called the current campaign this the angriest election season he’s seen

New York Mayor Eric Adams did not mince his words about his disapproval of what he called the large number of “nasty” Gen Z voters supporting Zhoran Mamdani, the democratic socialist candidate leading the race for NYC mayor.

  • Hastur@sh.itjust.works
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    5 months ago

    Giving NY a muslim mayor sounds like a very interesting idea. The LGBTQ… Collective is about to discover how it is to live in interesting times.

    • Regdok@lemmy.world
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      5 months ago

      I think the LGBTQ+ folk can probably go ahead and not do what you’re implying they should do: worry.

      Mamdani attended a Trans Community Town Hall with Ceyenne Doroshow in May, where he spoke with several activists about his plans for LGBTQ+ New Yorkers.

      “New York City must be a refuge for LGBTQIA+ people, but private institutions in our own city have already started capitulating to Trump’s assault on trans rights,” the Democratic candidate wrote in an Instagram post. “Meanwhile, the cost of living crisis confronting working class people across the city hits the LGBTQIA+ community particularly hard, with higher rates of unemployment and homelessness than the rest of the city.”

      Mamdani’s campaign promises included: The expansion and protection of gender-affirming care across New York City; the commitment to “strengthen and uphold the rights of queer and trans New Yorkers” through sanctuary protections; and the creation of an “Office of LGBTQIA+ Affairs” with the intent to “expand and centralize the services, programs, and support LGBTQIA+ New Yorkers’s needs across housing, employment, and more.”

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