NYC housing advocate Cea Weaver must own up to her – Latest News
Cea Weaver is over 35, with over a decade’s expertise as a hard-knuckled skilled advocate battling in New York politics — so why the heck did she burst into tears Wednesday when requested about her long historical past of remarks in regards to the “violence” and “racism” of personal property, which she desires the federal government to “seize”?
As chief of the Mayor’s Office to Protect Tenants, she’s messing with people’s houses, their lives, their lifesavings — and imperiously claiming all their personal property is evil: They have each proper to demand some explanations.
Maybe she wept at being revealed as a wee bit hypocritical: For all her claims that “private property and ESPECIALLY homeownership” is a “weapon of white supremacy,” she herself comes from a well-off household.
Weaver’s mother and pa every own comfy suburban houses.
Are they white supremacists?
Instead of being (higher) center class, ought to they be “impoverished,” as she prescribes for thus many others?
If not, why not?
Meet the press
Again, Weaver has long been within the public eye: She led the 2019 charge in Albany to finish rent deregulate and spearheaded the “Cancel Rent” motion in 2020, saying rental funds ought to be performed on the “honor system” and no one ought to ever be evicted.
And she knew that her calls for to “Elect more communists!” have been controversial, which is why she just lately deleted her X account and so forth: You solely scrub your social media if it’s soiled.
Fact is, Weaver has spent her grownup life in yet one more privileged bubble — a blue-state leftist one: Democratic socialist wrestle periods might get ferocious, however solely with some unwritten “safe space” ground guidelines. E.g., everybody in these circles implicitly agrees that their household backgrounds can’t be held towards them, as a result of they’re practically all “class traitors.”
That’s why it’s all proper for arch-radical Zohran Mamdani and his spouse to have three marriage ceremony celebrations on three continents, to revel within the premium expertise of gobbling omakase and to put on $700 boots.
It’s OK for them to own trip houses and benefit from the finer issues as a result of they’ve the suitable opinions; it’s the people not enlightened in regards to the finer factors of socialist doctrine who’re the issue.
So when of us exterior the charmed circle snicker at Cea Weaver’s hypocrisy, she faces an unfamiliar, existential menace: None of her allies would ever be so vulgar as to level it out.
Yet she’s now a public official, who wants to find a way to converse to the voters about what she actually believes and plans to do — particularly to these owners (many, maybe most, of them not white) she means to see dispossessed.
Get opinions and commentary from our columnists
Subscribe to our day by day Post Opinion publication!
Thanks for signing up!
Sorry, Cea, however taking questions from the press isn’t a Bryn Mawr microaggression.
Own up to your beliefs and clarify them.
