Some thoughts on Zohran Mamdani’s victory
kamilkazani.substack.com
Jeg syns denne refleksjonen til Kamil Galeev er interessant. Han mener at ordførervalget i New York viser tre ting:
1) at sinne/misnøye/roping ikke lenger er det som skaffer stemmer. " I think one thing that Mamdani - but almost no one else in the American public space is getting - is that
the public is getting tired of the outrage ". Når Madami snakker med innestemme fremstår han som den eneste voksne i lokalet.
2) At identitespolitikk ikke lenger sanker stemmer. " One thing that sets Zohran apart from most Dem (and progressive) politicians is that
he stopped antagonising entire demographies for no good reason at all. When he attacks someone, he is making sure he is attacking them personally and not as members of a broader community. "
3) Muslimfaren skremmer ikke folk lenger. De yngre har rett og slett ignorert muslimangsten hos de eldre."
Normative Islamophobia that has long been the single most acceptable form of racial & ethnic bigotry in America, is now receding. It is not so much dying as rather - failing to replicate in younger generations. It is not that the old people change their views as that the young do not absorb their prejudice any longer.
In fact, I incline to think it has been failing to replicate for a while, it is just that we have not been paying attention. All of this suggests that the normalised anti-Muslim prejudice will be washed away with the generational change. "