I used to believe racism in the United States was overstated. Sure, it existed. But it's not widespread. Common.
Well...I was wrong.
"Zohran Mamdani is a terrorist"
"Mamdani supports ISIS and Hamas"
"New York City faces sharia law"
"Mamdani wants to murder jews"
The amount of shit published about this guy is absolutely insane.
He recently attended the 9/11 memorial ceremony.
He exchanged a brief hug with representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and smiled for 5 seconds.
Immediatly, politicians went wild
Senator Ted Cruz:
Speaker Mike Johnson:
He smiled 5 seconds in a 5 hour ceremony and they accuse him of celebrating terrorism.
Here is the video. You can clearly see that he was stoic, he hugged her, then he immediatly went back to being stoic.
At the same 9/11 ceremony, JD Vance and Howard Lutnick laughed and joked.
No one cares.
I never thought I would say this.
The US is more racist than I ever imagined.
Absolutely.
But it's a bit more than that too, because it doesn't just have to be race. It's just differences, and race, religion, gender, regionality, politics and more all play a part in it.
It gets a little confusing for folks because most people (rightfully) aghast at the situation latch onto the issue most close to them as the primary one, but when dealing with bigots, it's usually more of a grab bag.
For example, did people not vote for Kamala because she was black, a woman, or a Democrat? From data it's likely most people's order of disgust went Democrat - > Black - > Woman, but that's definitely not all of them.
For Mamdani, for most people who hate him, it would appear to me that it's because he's Muslim. The fact he's brown too is just icing to them.