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white liberal hypocrisy called out by The Atlantic


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2023 Jul 23, 2:43pm   717 views  6 comments

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https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/07/wealthy-liberal-suburbs-economic-segregation-scarsdale/674792/

Liberal Suburbs Have Their Own Border Wall
Residents of rich blue towns talk about inclusion, but their laws do the opposite.

By Richard D. Kahlenberg

The New York City suburb of Scarsdale, located in Westchester County, New York, is one of the country’s wealthiest communities, and its residents are reliably liberal. In 2020, three-quarters of Scarsdale voters cast ballots for Joe Biden over Donald Trump. One can safely presume that few Scarsdale residents are ardent backers of Trump’s wall on the Mexican border. But many of them support a less visible kind of wall, erected by zoning regulations that ban multifamily housing and keep non-wealthy people, many of them people of color, out of their community.

Across the country, a lot of good white liberals, people who purchase copies of White Fragility and decry the U.S. Supreme Court for ending affirmative action, sleep every night in exclusive suburbs that socially engineer economic (and thereby racial) segregation by government edict. The huge inequalities between upscale municipalities and their poorer neighbors didn’t just happen; they are in large measure the product of laws that are hard to square with the inclusive In This House, We Believe signs on lawns in many highly educated, deep-blue suburbs.

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1   Misc   2023 Jul 23, 3:02pm  

Wait a second. The Atlantic printed that???
2   Ceffer   2023 Jul 23, 3:48pm  

It's the far left criticizing the smug, lip service of the not so far left. Time to air drop those Section 8 egalitarians so these blue, segregated suburbs can enjoy the pleasures of diversity, like barred windows, tall fences with barbed wire and broken glass, and armed escorts outside of the gates?

Remember, they always eventually eat their own.
3   AD   2023 Jul 23, 5:07pm  

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Yeah, I think of the white and Asian-privileged enclaves of California when I think about how zoning is exploited.

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4   Patrick   2024 Sep 21, 1:38pm  

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/relateable-saturday-september-21



Looks like The Atlantic updated that:

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2024/09/jay-varma-covid-sex-parties/679983/


Public-Health Officials Should Have Been Talking About Their Sex Parties the Whole Time

Messaging should be transparent.
5   Patrick   2024 Sep 24, 8:50am  

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/life-in-plastic-tuesday-sept-24-2024


The glacier-like Covid Accountability Express continues chugging slowly down the tracks. It is painfully slow, but it does continue moving forward. Yesterday saw some terrific updates in the stomach-turning Dr. Jay Varma story. First of all, the Atlantic stealth-edited its hilarious sub-headline:




... But even better was yesterday’s New York Post headline: “Ex-NYC COVID czar fired from job after copping to drug-fueled sex parties during pandemic.” Boom!

After leaving his lucrative taxpayer-funded job wrecking New York City, Dr. Varma landed another lucrative job with a publicly traded pharmaceutical company, SIGA Technologies. Yesterday, SIGA unemotionally notified the Securities and Exchange Commission that it fired Dr. Varma.

“On September 23, 2024, the Board of Directors of SIGA Technologies (NASDAQ: SIGA) terminated Dr. Jay Varma, effective immediately, other than for cause, from his position as Executive Vice President and Chief Medical Officer of the Company,” the firm explained in its SEC filing.

The concupiscent covid expert’s pain isn’t over yet. Bipartisan outrage at the shameless scientist is building in New York. Yesterday, the Post reported that “enraged city business owners and parents joined lawmakers on the steps of City Hall” to protest slimy Dr. Varma.

“Varma boasted about harassing people into submission over the vaccine mandate and admitted to participating in illegal sex parties, all while he, former Health Commissioner Dr. David Chokshi, and then-Mayor Bill de Blasio imposed draconian measures that shut down the entire city,” City Councilman Bob Holden (D-Queens) complained, adding “the hypocrisy is outrageous.”

Holden called Dr. Varma’s sudden and unexpected firing “a good first step.”

City Councilwoman Inna Vernikov (R-Brooklyn) raged, “While grandmothers took their last breaths alone on cold hospital beds, Dr. Varma was fulfilling his sick fantasies with hundreds of sweaty strangers.”

Now, almost five years later, officials like Dr. Varma are still being brought to account. I get it, it should be jail, but there’s a bigger message being sent to all the other so-called covid and vaccine experts. They probably thought we would forget and move on, what with everything else going on around the world and here at home. But we haven’t forgotten, and these so-called men of science are still taking the online bait and getting set up to be taken down.

We haven’t forgotten, and we won’t forget. Never.

You have to admit, disgusting Dr. Varma’s firing is a little encouraging.

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