They sanewashed him just like they did with Trump. Another brain-rotted nepobaby the media covered like they did because it made the race "interesting." He's every obnoxious anti-vaxxer who won't shut up despite being debunked fifty million times.
I can say this as someone who worked in hospitality and as a human being in general, 90 percent of the time I have wanted to punch someone else in the mouth, it was another asshole white person who was born and bred right here.
Kind, always stopped by for a pleasant conversation, would bring me food down, which was great because I usually had to work doubles because somebody didn't come in. He was studying math and doing all the "right" things an immigrant is supposed to do. I hope him and his family are alright now.
Ya know, I used to work front desk a while back, and I had to put up with some of the worst behavior from the most entitled people you could imagine. All for 8 bucks an hour. I will never forget the Muslim man and his family who were staying. True, good people when everyone else was an asshole.
It's been over 20 years of Islamaphobia and 9/11 truly brought out the worst in this country to the surface. They're trying to say Mamdani is a terrorist, basically. Or a commie jihadist, whatever the fuck that is. Just throw random shit that scares old white racists! Something has to stick!
And there's no way to prove this guy went under some American History X level of reexamination of his beliefs. According to him, it's something he just naturally grew out of. I'm pretty sure that's not how it works. Something drastic besides just getting older has to happen.
The benefit of the doubt is insane. Nobody is going to cop to being a Nazi until it's way, way too late. You can say all the Nazi shit until the cows come home, but until the words "I am a Nazi" come out of your mouth, you can claim innocence.
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