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Rugian
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Wed Jan 07 12:31:52
In a resurfaced tweet and video clip, a top housing official in newly minted New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s administration previously called homeownership a "weapon of white supremacy" and argued that property should be treated as a "collective good."

Cea Weaver, a longtime housing activist and member of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), was tapped by Mamdani to be his director of the Mayor’s Office to Protect Tenants.

Since taking office, Weaver has gone viral for several tweets she posted on her since-deleted X account.

A screenshot of an Aug. 21, 2019, tweet shows Weaver writing that "private property including and kind of ESPECIALLY homeownership is a weapon of white supremacy masquerading as ‘wealth building’ public policy."

In an earlier tweet from Dec. 18, 2017, Weaver also called to "elect more communists."

In a DSA video from March 2021 that has since gone viral, Weaver said, "I think the reality is that for centuries, we have really treated property as an individualized good and not a collective good."

She went on to say that "transitioning to treating it as a collective good towards a model of shared equity, will require that we think about it differently."

Weaver said this "will mean that families, and white families especially, but some POC [people of color] families who are homeowners as well, are going to have a different relationship to property than the one that we currently have."

Before joining the Mamdani administration, Weaver was a longtime housing activist and served as executive director of Housing Justice for All and the New York State Tenant Bloc.

http://www...nership-weapon-white-supremacy
Rugian
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Wed Jan 07 12:39:05
On a recently deactivated Twitter account, New York’s new tenant tsarina posted in 2021 that rent control is “a perfect solution to everything” and bragged that it’s “a more effective way to shrink the value of real estate” than zoning restrictions. In 2018, she wrote: “Impoverish the *white* middle class. Homeownership is racist / failed public policy.” The same year, she said “there is no such thing as a ‘good’ gentrifier” and described gentrification as “part of a centuries long process of white supremacy.” She also called to “elect more communists.”

How Weaver plans to navigate the little problem of constitutionally protected property rights remains unclear, but the elevation of someone with such ugly and racialized views into a position of authority in America’s biggest city is fresh evidence that Mamdani wasn’t joking when he said during his inaugural address that he will make “no apology for what we believe.”

“I was elected as a democratic socialist, and I will govern as a democratic socialist,” Mamdani said. “I will not abandon my principles for fear of being deemed radical.” One wonders how many of his voters realized this would mean appointing people who are deliberately trying to devalue property and divide the public based on race.

http://www...dani-weaver-mayor-nyc-housing/
Sam Adams
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Wed Jan 07 16:18:36
This is such a high level of stupidity, you basically have to consider her nonhuman.
Pillz
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Wed Jan 07 16:22:26
Her mother owns a $1.6 million house in Tennessee, NY

Lol
murder
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Wed Jan 07 16:29:34

Uh-oh! NYC has outlawed private property and seized the means of production!

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Forwyn
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Wed Jan 07 19:24:18
White liberal woman. Classic.

Repeal the 19th post-haste
Im better then you
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Wed Jan 07 20:00:21
Wow so Republicans are capable of reading tweets.
Dukhat
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Wed Jan 07 20:23:10
Who cares? A harmelss communist that will be voted out easily versus Trump's army of violent henchmen.
Sam Adams
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Wed Jan 07 20:25:06
Cuckhat you realize that be associating your party with nutcases like this, that's what allowed trump to get elected.

If the Dems were remotely sane, no trump.
Sam Adams
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Wed Jan 07 20:41:18
By associating
Dukhat
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Wed Jan 07 21:22:09
You stupid, motherfucker, as always trying to find some adult that feeds their own resentment and ignorance. It’s always a fucking story about something overseas that I couldn’t care less about.

But you just cared about it in the moment because you’re so fucking stupid and I always want to trigger yourself over and over again like fucking retArds
Im better then you
rank
Wed Jan 07 21:24:31
Policy matters not random tweets from years ago from a staffer.

kargen
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Wed Jan 07 21:29:38
In this case they are going to do their damnedest to see that policy matches those random tweets. It is in part what the mayor ran on and why she was selected to the position.
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