Bravo to Mayor Eric Adams for taking a lonely stand against the hatred spewed by CUNY Law speaker Fatima Mousa Mohammed against America, the NYPD and Israel.
“If I was on that stage, when those comments were made, I would have stood up and denounced them immediately,” the mayor thundered Wednesday at a Gracie Mansion reception.
Adams continues to be among the sanest Dems in New York politics — and one of the few top-level names with the cojones to face down the left’s Twitter brigades (Rep. Ritchie Torres is another).
The same can’t be said for Gov. Kathy Hochul. She’s displayed her trademark spinelessness on the issue:
“I condemn all forms of hate speech. It is divisive. It is hurtful. It is cruel. And I’m calling on everyone across the state to join with us in saying no more,” she babbled.
That was it. Could anything have been more insipid?
Yet her cowardice is shared by other prominent Democrats, like New York City Comptroller Brad Lander and Manhattan beep Mark Levine, plus at least five of CUNY’s own trustees.
Remember: Mohammed claimed that “the law is a manifestation of white supremacy that continues to oppress and suppress people in this nation and around the world” and that the NYPD was “fascist.”
These are not widely held views, and criticizing them is not only morally right but politically savvy.
Yet the prog silence shows how pols like Hochul and Lander feel far more answerable to the insane demands of the shoutiest minority than the people who put them in office.
No wonder government fails to deliver what New Yorkers actually want, time and time again: safe streets, good schools and a strong economy.
Pushback against woke madness is tanking stocks left and right. Voters should realize they can do the same thing to politicians who’d rather fight leftoid culture war battles than govern wisely.