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Don’t get it wrong, I totally understand the punitive justice system is not how you deal with hate crime, but dispute mediation is actually a serious tangible improvement over the current solutions we currently have in hand like sending an armed cop. I don’t think the solution is the carceral system, but I think that it’s a hell of a lot easier to fundamentally change how the carceral system functions and what it’s goals are when the people we actually task at restorative justice projects aren’t literal cops and are trained in how to do restorative justice. I also think that a mayor who is at least a democratic socialist will be far more amicable to working to dismantle the worst parts of the carceral system than, I don’t know, literally any of the other options we have on the table. We do actually get to vote, whether or not the candidate is perfect, and there will be a mayor, whether or not they are perfect. I at least want a mayor that understand materialism and can normalize the idea of socialism while doing what is possible short of an actual proletarian revolution to take the boot off of the neck of the working class.

There are conditions I’d rather organize in, and it isn’t under literal mayor cop Eric Adams. To call what I’m doing “shilling” is funny because I’d rather “shill” to get a democratic socialist elected and give my community a nucleus to organize around than “shill” for ideological purity when there will be a mayor regardless. It might as well be a better mayor if it’s possible. I’d rather not sit tethered to a lead and not test the limits of how far I can push improving conditions short of the actual revolution.

understood

Oh idk if you were responding to me but I just wanted to be funny in my reply

It was a materialistic campaign. The entire focus was on improving the material conditions of New Yorkers. It won’t be a red terror, it’ll be an improvement of material conditions to allow the working class to better organize. Free childcare is really one of the major cornerstones here

Ok but if his mayoral campaign tanks he should just say it

No but I’m already mad that he wants to hire more cops and increase policing because I made it up, and I am such a principled leftist that naturally I didn’t actually take the time to understand the policies I am arguing against

Call me crazy, but funding hate crime prevention and expanding the social safety net is good, actually. To call social workers cops as if they are truly one and the same is so fucking disingenuous it’s almost unbelievable. Yeah, sending in the guy with a degree in deescalation to settle a dispute is exactly the same as sending in an armed thug with a gun and anger issues.

Please say you are not serious.

They’ll call anybody a communist. Might as well be one and show people it’s good to be a communist

He wants to hire social workers and expand the social safety net, not increase police funding. Please at least attempt to familiarize yourself with the material you are discussing before making sweeping statements about it

Cool. Surely Zohran has said something about this funding going towards increased policing then right?

Oh wait he hasn’t? He said it’d go to social workers and social programs? Alas, I’m already mad about something I invented in my head

You are obviously unfamiliar with Zohran’s campaign. Nowhere in any of these posts or anywhere in his history or anywhere in his campaign has he said to hire more cops to fix this. The campaign promise was to hire more social workers.

You are literally making something up to be mad about. He did not say he wants to hire cops to combat antisemitism. He said he wants to increase funding for hate crime prevention.

I worked with the campaign and know him. There’s not going to be a red terror. We ran a materialist campaign. He’s a boot-off-the-neck candidate. Nobody here should ever be expecting a proletarian revolution here in NYC because Zohran won. They should be expecting better conditions to organize and mobilize the working class, including but not limited to showing that a better world is possible. It is a normalizing socialism campaign. A class politics first campaign. Both were already huge asks in an election of this size, but an extremely necessary step