"On the night of Zohran Mamdani's election victory, Sadiq Khan, the mayor of London, posted congratulations on social media, writing, "New Yorkers faced a clear choice - between hope and fear - and just like we've seen in London - hope won." But Khan, the first Muslim mayor of London, knows all too well that even after hope wins, hatred hangs around like an angry drunk in an alley, spoiling for a rematch."
""Any decent New Yorker, certainly any Jew, should hate this bastard," WABC radio's morning host, Sid Rosenberg, recently told listeners in a rant against Mamdani that the station not only aired but excerpted and pushed out on social media. Two days before Thanksgiving, Rosenberg was at it again: "This punk is now the mayor. This little bitch," he spat. "Now he's putting together this transition team, which looks more and more like the Iraqi soccer team.""
""You know what I said to Zohran? I said to him, 'Look, before November 4, there was war. After November 5, let's settle down and forget about the past and go forward,'" Catsimatidis told me. I asked whether he plans to rein in the hate speech on his station. "I would not allow any hate speech," Catsimatidis promised, and I will take him at his word."
New York endured one of the ugliest political seasons in decades, with multiple public figures producing thousands of divisive, hateful messages about Muslims that were seen and heard by millions. The bigotry continued after the election and threatens to poison the city unless a vocal majority forces it to end. On election night Sadiq Khan congratulated Zohran Mamdani but noted that even after hope wins hatred can linger. WABC morning host Sid Rosenberg called Mamdani 'this bastard' and 'this little bitch,' mocking his transition team, and the station aired and pushed those remarks on social media. WABC owner John Catsimatidis said he would not allow hate speech and urged moving forward.
Read at Intelligencer
Unable to calculate read time
Collection
[
|
...
]