Being Weird About Zohran

<p>Caitlin and Trent speak with Eiynah about how people simply cannot be normal about NYC mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani, the way the New York Times keeps getting puppetted by far-right propagandists, and the manufactured nature of “newsworthiness.”</p><p><br /></p><p>Resources:</p><p><br /></p><p>News media propagate moral panics: https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/mono/10.4324/9780203828250/folk-devils-moral-panics-stanley-cohen</p><p><br /></p><p>“Newsworthiness”: https://discourses.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Teun-A.-van-Dijk-1991-Racism-And-the-Press.pdf</p><p><br /></p><p>Iteration: https://nupress.northwestern.edu/9780810107885/limited-inc/ </p><p><br /></p><p>Reported speech can be recontextualized: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0378216699000806 </p><p><br /></p><p>The Bulwark Podcast June 17: https://www.thebulwark.com/p/zohran-mamdani-fypod-crossover </p><p><br /></p><p>New York Times June 21: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/19/nyregion/mamdani-globalize-intifada.html </p><p><br /></p><p>https://theintercept.com/2025/07/10/mamdani-globalize-intifada-democrats/ </p><p><br /></p><p>Don’t quote the ADL: https://truthout.org/articles/its-time-to-break-with-the-adl-as-a-source-for-news-and-research-on-extremism/ </p><p><br /></p><p>Dan Goldman’s bias should be mentioned: https://www.dangoldmanforny.com/israel </p><p><br /></p><p>Jon Chait asks, why won’t he denounce the phrase? https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/06/zohran-mamdani-globalize-intifada/683300/ </p><p><br /></p><p>Jon Chait hates attacks over a “decontextualized phrase or weaponized misunderstanding” https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/12/cancel-culture-illiberalism-dead/681031/</p><p> </p><p>NYT Columbia hacked https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/01/nyregion/columbia-university-hacker.html </p><p><br /></p><p>NYT Columbia “exposé” https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/03/nyregion/mamdani-columbia-black-application.html </p><p><br /></p><p>NYT looking for justification: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/04/us/census-racial-categories.html </p><p><br /></p><p>“Black New Yorkers”? https://nypost.com/2025/07/04/us-news/black-new-yorkers-rage-over-mamdanis-african-american-claim/ </p><p><br /></p><p>https://thehill.com/opinion/robbys-radar/5388110-black-new-yorkers-slam-zohran-mamdani-over-race-claims-on-his-college-application/</p><p><br /></p><p>Why the NYT keeps getting played: https://www.findinggravity.net/p/christopher-rufo-and-elise-stefanik?utm_source=publication-search</p><p><br /></p><p>https://www.theverge.com/culture/700082/nyt-mamdani-news-judgment </p><p><br /></p><p>Chris Rufo lying about a drag queen: https://x.com/caitlinmoriah/status/1582415915508895746</p><p><br /></p><p>Chris Rufo lying about eating cats in Ohio: https://web.archive.org/web/20240914120637/https://christopherrufo.com/p/the-cat-eaters-of-ohio</p><p><br /></p><p>Crémieux/Jordan Lasker https://www.cjr.org/news/times-mamdani-college-application-race-article-hack.php </p><p><br /></p><p>Lasker is a grad student who believes in racist pseudoscience https://x.com/thecollegehill/status/1847372903077335501 </p><p><br /></p><p>Mamdani’s policies are not out of step with US opinion https://www.yahoo.com/news/poll-zohran-mamdanis-policies-are-popular-with-americans-outside-new-york--even-if-mamdani-is-not-162406841.html </p><p><br /></p><p>Mamdani eats with his hands: https://newrepublic.com/post/197538/maga-reaction-zohran-mamdani-eating-food-hands</p>