Posted on 11/18/2014 2:20:03 PM PST by OddLane
The trouble with thinking that the personal is political, as late-1960s feminists taught American radicals to say, is that it is not merely wrong but also dangerous, as yesterday’s sad and sordid departure of Rachel Noerdlinger from her $170,000-a-year job as chief of staff to New York mayor Bill de Blasio’s wife demonstrated.
This fundamental tenet of identity politics, a shorthand way of saying that your personal unhappiness stems from larger political forces—anything from the suffocating nuclear family, the institutionalized oppression of women, or the supposedly ineradicable racism of American society—and that only vast political change can solve your individual problems, has been the guiding principle of New York mayor Bill de Blasio’s administration. His campaign slogan was the “tale of two cities:” one poor and minority; one rich, white, and determined to oppress the other New York with a racist police force bent on harassing minority youths with stop-and-frisk tactics based on racial profiling.
A de Blasio administration would end stop-and-frisk, the candidate promised. It would then uplift the poor New York by taxing the rich one to provide universal preschool, whose lack is a key reason ghetto kids don’t succeed, he contended, and to hand out welfare checks without requiring recipients to do workfare jobs in return, since institutionalized racism is the reason they have no jobs in the first place.
(Excerpt) Read more at city-journal.org ...
This woman had to quit because her son was arrested for trespassing? Heck, I’ve been arrested for trespassing...and nobody cared. I’m thinking we’re not getting the whole story here....
Some more details: http://nypost.com/2014/11/17/rachel-noerdlinger-called-to-gracie-mansion-after-sons-arrest/
Mom’s a protege of Al Sharpton.
Why the hell does the mayor’s wife even have a staff on the public payroll?
“Why the hell does the mayor’s wife even have a staff on the public payroll?”
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That’s what I don’t get. I wasn’t aware that the mayor’s wife was an elected official.
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The entire Democrat party is evil. But some are even worse than others.
I’m appalled at the use of the NYPD as chauffeurs.
NYC is a sink.
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don’t you know we are not supposed to be critical of our masters?
bump
de Blasio and his administration are not just democRATS. They are communists with a capital C. New Yorkers is getting what they voted for. Disgusting what this country has turned into by the ignorant that shouldn’t vote.
His campaign slogan was the “tale of two cities:” one poor and minority; one rich, white, and determined to oppress the other New York with a racist police force bent on harassing minority youths with stop-and-frisk tactics based on racial profiling. A de Blasio administration would end stop-and-frisk, the candidate promised. It would then uplift the poor New York by taxing the rich one to provide universal preschool, whose lack is a key reason ghetto kids don’t succeed, he contended, and to hand out welfare checks without requiring recipients to do workfare jobs in return, since institutionalized racism is the reason they have no jobs in the first place.
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