Zohran Mamdani’s support for legalizing – Latest News
Realizing that his pro-prostitution posturing gained’t fly with metropolis voters, Zohran Mamdani is making an attempt to cover behind . . . Bill de Blasio.
Seriously.
Mamdani’s file is just too clear to shake: He has stated time and again that he needs to decriminalize prostitution — or “sex work,” as he and his fellow radicals call it, as if the euphemism by some means makes the truth any much less terrible.
They need you to think about high-end hookers, not the far larger numbers of girls pressured to sell their our bodies to benefit brutal pimps, nor the numerous women kidnapped and in any other case trafficked into the commerce.
Asked Wednesday about his longtime support for this rancid industry, Mamdani deflected, saying it’s about “the outcomes of public safety.”
As if there’s any “safety” in girls promoting their our bodies for money.
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The Democratic nominee added that he’d look to Mayor Bill de Blasio’s method to prostitution as a result of “it created far more safety” than we’ve seen since.
In truth, de Blasio solely joined the push to embrace “sex work” as his mayoralty was ending and the left was making an attempt to increase the “reform” pondering that had already given New York the no-bail law, “violence interrupters,” a let-’em-lose Parole Board, pot legalization and a host of different doubtful “progress.”
Please word: Andrew Cuomo, who’s now preaching on the horrors of hookers to embarrass Mamdani, in early 2021 signed a law repealing statutes in opposition to loitering for the aim of prostitution.
Progressives, in short, laid the ground for the explosion of prostitution that quickly adopted alongside Roosevelt Avenue in Queens and within the “Penn Track” part of Brooklyn.
As all the time, gang exercise, illegal-drug dealing and different dysfunction rushed in together with the flesh commerce.
In different phrases, it’s exactly Mamdani’s favored “decriminalization” method that’s introduced the “outcomes of public safety” he now deems inferior.
Incidentally, that is an space the place Mamdani and his Democratic Socialists don’t wish to comply with Scandinavia.
You see, the “Nordic model” on prostitution seems to “curb demand” by arresting pimps and shoppers, whereas offering prostitutes pro-social choices to depart “the life.”
That’s no good, per Mamdani, as a result of “it guarantees continued police raids at sex workers’ places of business.”
Well, yeah: That’s how you catch people breaking the law.
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But: “You can’t police customers without policing sex workers,” insists prime Mamdani ally City Councilwoman Tiffany Caban (D-Astoria), as if policing had been inherently oppressive.
Of course, “oppressive” is simply what Caban and Mamdani imagine about policing, although Zohran’s now doing his best to fudge on that, too.
You needn’t be some hidebound conventional moralist to see having intercourse for money as inherently dehumanizing; it’s the advocates who insist it’s “empowering” who’ve left actuality behind.
Mamdani is dedicated to a host of absurd beliefs that he’s now making an attempt to hide, however probably the most repulsive would be the ones that might welcome New York City turning into a magnet for the sort of scum who sell girls.
