Mamdani Won’t Decommodify Housing, and Neither Will Anyone Else
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Someone recently dug up this tweet from New York City Pre-Mayor Zohran Mamdani:
People Who Support Affordable Housing Should Support Housing for Rich Assholes
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I’ve long been amused by what I call “in-between fallback arguments”. These are the arguments that people make when they can’t or won’t defend their actual position. A classic in-between fallback argument was “It’s okay if you’re gay as long as you don’t flaunt it,” as if a reasonable compromise was for gay people to buy a garden shed and bury it underground so they’d have some place to go to when they felt the need to gay it up. “Schools should teach evolution
