Yes and posted this mere minutes ago:
Bloomberg had a pandemic plan in 2006. If it had been implemented things might have looked a lot different. Although it’s not diBlasio’s fault completely (that’s shared by Bloomberg’s administration and even more by the city council budget cuts) but he put the final nail in the coffin by selling off the surplus ventilators and not updating the stock.
How New York City’s Emergency Ventilator Stockpile Ended Up on the Auction Block — ProPublica
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“Originally Posted by Smapti View Post
So integrated public schools are a bad thing?”
To be fair, I said he was incompetent and bad for other reasons as well including his woke racism.
Do you think they are strong views or correct views?
His racism is part of what makes him like Trump.
It’s ‘Newsom’.
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Lol, yeah which was in response to:
Which you of course had to say when someone challenged you on how liberal DeBlasio is.
It’s clear to me that other posters are struggling to make sense of this thread, when the OP posts links to articles about De Blasio’s poor response to this crisis and then throws a few jabs about racism in there. Others have wondered what De Blasio, the pandemic, and racism are doing in a single thread.
Note that I was not actually saying whether the OP is right or wrong on anything, so your accusation of an ad hominem is nothing more than a poisoning of the well. So there.
Whether you are right or wrong is aside from the point - nobody knows what the fuck you are talking about with you mashing up articles about COVID and accusations of people being “woke.” I was trying to explain that this thread is more of an airing of grievances than those things actually having a coherent link between the two.
You’re going to have to dig up some quotes of De Blasio saying neo-Confederates are good people and so on for me to take that seriously. Trump is among the most prominent racists in the country. Posting links to COVID response doesn’t help.
I think de Blasio’s heart is in the right place.
Mayor de Blasio was right when he said in 2014 after Eric Garner’s killer did not get indicted by the grand jury this:
De Blasio had called the Garner case “profoundly personal for me,” saying that because of “the dangers [Dante] may face, we’ve had to literally train him . . . in how to take special care in any encounter he has with the police officers who are there to protect him.”
But he is not effective mayor.
Most New York City mayors think they can be president. Giuliani ran in 2008. de Blasio and Bloomberg ran for president in 2020. It failed.
Americans don’t want New York City mayors as presidents.
Really??
Come on – he suffered a calamitous failure of both nerve and imagination: the school closures would affect all public school students, though it’s true it would hit harder those in the lower socioeconomic rungs which in NYC happen to be disproportionately minorities. But being somehow unable to come up with a plan to address that, he did not dare to inflict short-term distress on some of his few remaining allied communities either. Simple political cowardice when confronted by his own shortcomings, not “woke racism”, IMO.
Just to clarify. When I say that DeBlasio is the Democratic version of Trump, it is not just his incompetence, it is also his racism.
DeBlasio subscribes to a woke SJW version of racism.
He is not the exact same type of racist as Trump, he subscribes to a woke SJW version of racism.
New York City’s health officials certainly have been focused on being woke of late. First there was Mary T. Bassett, commissioner of the Dept. of Health and Mental Hygiene from 2014 to 2018, notable for giving a TED talk on “Why Your Doctor Should Care About Social Justice” and other things of that sort. She was followed by Oxiris Barbot, who puts stuff like this in her bio:
As an innovative public health leader, Dr. Barbot has championed addressing health inequities in major cities along the east coast. Most recently, she served as the First Deputy Commissioner of the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. In this role, she served at the helm of the agency’s efforts to eradicate health inequities across New York City. Such efforts include but are not limited to revamping Take Care New York 2020 (#TCNY2020), the City’s data-driven blueprint for achieving health equity, and spearheading the creation of the Center for Health Equity which operationalizes the Department’s commitment to racial justice,
In February she encouraged people to get out and party. In March she was saying things like “There’s no indication that being in a car, being in the subways with someone who’s potentially sick is a risk factor.”
Bill de Blasio has given NYC a government that’s totally focused on social justice and fighting racism everywhere regardless of whether or not it exists, and now they have a health department leader who knows more about fighting inequality than about coronavirus.
He is not a ku klux klan racist. He is a woke sjw racist.
He espouses this narrative that the reason that blacks and hispanics cannot succeed academically is the white supremacy that permeates this society. Then even poorer asian kids (asians are the poorest demographic in NYC) come along and turn him into a liar by doing well academically.
Social justice views have nothing to do with efforts to fight a pandemic. I think de Blasio sucks for his bad management decisions. Maybe that includes incompetent hiring. But none of that has anything to do with views about social justice.
Yeah, I mean, it’s not as if you could not advocate social justice AND run the damn city properly while working on that.
Unless that is what’s being claimed? That concern for Social Justice is fundamentally incompatible with good governance?
Someone can both be competent and effective ***and ***aspire to building social justice. Of course that requires being able to exercise good judgement on what hills you want to die on and be willing to take the heat from your allies when the right decision is not the nice decision. That Blas apparently did not assemble that sort of a team is a very negative mark on his ability to govern.
No of course not. Some people can walk and chew gum at the same time. This guy has more trouble doing it than most. If you’re constantly looking at every issue the social justice angle, you might end up looking at a public health issue from a social justice angle and fucking it up.
You think his public health team is bad? You should get a load of his education team.
Cite?