Name that white nationalist!
And the writer/editor.
18 Likes
“ He has been previously outed by the Guardian as Jordan Lasker, who writes a lot about race science and IQ, pushing the discredited eugenics ideas including the “genetic pathways of crime” and the “race-IQ gap.””
20 Likes
I’m sorry, NYT, what is the problem with Mamdani ticking that box? He was born in Africa and is an American citizen, was probably at least a resident of America. They probably don’t have a box for “Born in Africa of Indian descent residing in the United States.”
I sometimes have difficulty figuring out which box to tick due to the weird options they offer. My kids might as well tick a random box, since there is never a correct one for their mixed race combination.
18 Likes
and that’s one of the better ones.
13 Likes
Quick overview of that shite:
Mamdani was born in Uganda, where his father’s people had long been, and raised there and in South Africa before his parents brought him to America when he was 7; he is literally African in that he was born on that continent (and there is a large multi-generational diaspora of people of Indian origin in Africa). The racists behind the story want to pretend that he lied he was black (nope, the box also said African American) and also throw a few punches at affirmative action.
The information about his application came from a hack of Columbia University records, and the hack came from a notorious white supremacist whose identity the New York Times was protecting (and calling an academic) but smart people outed him as the creep obsessed with the pseudo-science of racial superiority/inferiority he is. That the piece’s author seems to have been in contact with such a vile person and they seem to have conspired together on this smear and the NYT doesn’t seem to have cared says a lot. So does the fact that they were okay with a hack in this instance, after declining to use hacked documents about team Trump.
The clueless author posted his piece on BlueSky, and I have never seen anyone get so many 100% negative responses–got ratio’d out of town you could say. The Times modified the piece repeatedly as furious feedback and fact-checking poured in. It was an attempt to make Mamdani look underhanded, and part of their clear bias against this inspiring and wildly successful progressive candidate. This is how the NY Times does hit pieces–digs up pretty obscure dirt from long ago, blows up minor things, makes insinuations from the dubious evidence.
Many good journalists (and a few good columnists) work at the New York Times, but something is rotten in the kingdom of editorial. And has been for a long time. It’s frustrating that a lot of people take its posh tone for respectability and respectability for honesty and truth.
Here’s a headline from Mediate showing how this stuff works: “Fox Hosts Roast ‘Racist’ Zohran Mamdani for Claiming to Be ‘African-American’ on College Application: ‘He Should Call Elizabeth Warren.’” It was a way to hand a smear to the right. Fox Hosts Roast Zohran Mamdani Over College App Scandal
p.s. Zohran Mamdani is the son of a distinguished Muslim academic who grew up in Uganda and of a renowned Sikh South Asian filmmaker, Mira Nair. He graduated from college (not Columbia) in 2014 but didn’t become a US citizen until 2018. Mamdani was given his middle name, Kwame, by his father in honor of Kwame Nkrumah, the first president of Ghana.
Even in the piece, the Times admits “Mr. Mamdani was born in Kampala, Uganda, to Mira Nair, an acclaimed film director who grew up in India and later emigrated to the United States, and Mahmood Mamdani, then a college professor at Makerere University. Both his parents are of Indian descent, but his father’s family came to East Africa more than 100 years ago, Mr. Mamdani said.”
The top upvoted comments on the piece are full of scorn and hate for what the Times did, so its readers are better than their paper.
22 Likes
14 Likes
“Skydance boss David Ellison…agreed that once he takes control of the Tiffany Network…it will run between $15 million and $20 million of public service ads to promote causes supported by the president, a source with knowledge of the negotiations said.”
Star Trek is done.
12 Likes
Why? Why don’t they know? Whose responsibility is it to ensure they know, how are those mechanisms failing, and what can we do to repair or replace them?
Those are the questions those who believe in journalism as public service should be asking ourselves. Because 48% is a failing grade.
17 Likes
it got his tenured co-author fired
11 Likes
I had an idea a while back that fans should try and do a hostile take over of Trek. I think if we all chipped in a little, we’d probably raise whatever it’s worth. It should NOT be in the hands of fascist-appeasing dipshits.
Bunch of fucking gul dukats.
17 Likes
14 Likes
From the comments:
What I love is that Reason still has to be subsidized. Not even libertarians are buying the shit Reason is peddling.
I’m sure the Reason Foundation(!?) has explained that away. If I cared enough to look, I’d guess it’s something along the lines of “& if it weren’t for those lousy meddling laws & regulations, our readers would be completely unfettered & could support us outright”
13 Likes
11 Likes
If we do that, can we officially declare the Kelvin Timeline films a fever dream that never actually happened?
9 Likes
I say yes… though that’ll need to be a collective decision!
Anyway, it’s only worth 11.2 billion… certainly all the trekkies the world over could raise that if we all threw in a few bucks each?
Also…
11 Likes
Definitely top.
13 Likes