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Diary of disturbing disinformation and harmful delusions
This argument
“Whenever I talk about raising taxes on the wealthiest, people will respond with what is generally a myth of capital flight.” — Mayor Zohran Mamdani, Monday
We say: It’s no “myth” that high-earning New Yorkers are voting with their ft and heading to low or no-tax states like Florida and Texas.
Only in Mamdani La-La Land do the wealthy stand and smile whereas getting their pockets picked.
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This protection
“Pointing out the crucial connections between what is happening in Gaza and what is happening in Hollywood is the exact opposite of antisemitism.” — Open letter from Jewish “celebrities” in protection of actor Mark Ruffalo, Tuesday
We say: Actually, thrusting an unrelated Hollywood studio merger into the Israel-Hamas battle sounds precisely like antisemitism.
Israel-haters need to stop utilizing “Zionism” as a stand in for “anything they don’t like.”
This declare
“The people that bore the brunt of the Holocaust were the Palestinians.” — Journalist Emma Vigeland, Wednesday
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We say: That’s bizarre, we may have sworn that European Jewry — you recognize, the people really killed — bore the brunt of the Nazi genocide.
But these affected by Palestine Derangement Syndrome apparently have their own demented view of historical past.
This assertion
“[The] Supreme Court . . . [wants to] take this country back, I say, to those rulings . . . that said no black man has any rights that a white man must respect.” — Rep. Jim Clyburn (D-SC), Sunday
We say: What latest high-court instances strip away the rights of black people or empower whites to push them off the sidewalk?
To the opposite, this Supreme Court has labored to strengthen the precept of shade blindness, insisting on whole equality earlier than the law.
— Compiled by The Post Editorial Board
