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On Wednesday, the UK Daily Mail ran a silly followup story about Socialist Mayor Zohran “the Magnificent” Mamdani’s new anti-white Tenant Advocate Director, headlined, “Anti-white NYC mayoral aide SOBS when asked about mom’s home.” Online-insurgent-turned-bureaucrat Cea Weaver was confronted outside her townhouse by Daily Mail journos earlier this week, who merely wished to clarify her anti-white, anti-capitalist views. Weaver, a Bryn Mawr graduate, demonstrated the cool aplomb of a hardened French revolutionary with her fingers on the guillotine handle by dissolving in tears and fleeing down the street.

In 2018, Weaver tweeted, “There is no such thing as ‘good gentrifier,’ only people who are actively working on projects to dismantle white supremacy and capitalism and people who aren’t.” But diligent Daily Mail researchers, doing proper journalism, dug up the fact that Weaver’s own parents (Vanderbilt professors, of course), own a $1.4 million home in a chic neighborhood in Nashville— a former black neighborhood that is now too expensive for lower and middle class folks. In other words— Weaver’s parents are textbook gentrifiers.

Weaver herself said there was no such thing as a good gentrifier. Weaver’s townhouse in Crown Heights is also in a gentrifying New York neighborhood. You can imagine the questions the Daily Mail reporters had hoped to ask, were it not for Weaver’s bourgeois tears, deployed the same way an octopus squirts out a cloud of ink before it jets away.