When I initially heard this I thought the Yang campaign's allegations of racism were silly. The joke about being a tourist was not racial. However, looking at the cartoon, the change, and the difference from the other characters, it's not cool.https://twitter.com/RobGeorge/status/1397662993903718400 …
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Replying to @hunterw
The whole narrative about Yang not being a real New Yorker was planted by NY media very early in the campaign. Andrew has just as much New Yorkness as the other candidates, but they chose this particular angle to keep pounding. Why? This wasn't an accident.
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He's lived there for 25 years. The entire idea that someone living in a place for 25 years wouldn't be considered a real New Yorker is xenophobic and clique-ish to begin with and not a serious critique on whether someone is qualified to lead. Yet they chose to hit Yang with it...
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it’s not some mass conspiracy, it’s just easy to make fun of someone going around touring eateries in a pandemic, it seems quintessentially nyc tourist, it doesn’t take machiavelli to coordinate lots of people noticing this obvious pr campaign and how silly it is
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dude he started doing this and then got covid, maybe his intentions were good and i’m even a fan of a lot of his policies but it was a pretty questionable judgement call
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well i’m far from the only voice on this, but if you’re going to round off the whole thing to “not real new yorker” i think you have to declaim the unfairness of the narrative propagation, not generation
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