Today, there is a cause for celebration because Zohran Mamdani has just been elected Mayor of NYC. The first South Asian and Muslim person to take on the job. He ran on a socialist platform and won by a landslide, beating the less-than-mediocre former governor Andrew Cuomo.
Manny and I were having coffee this morning when he mentioned one of the people he knows at the Buddhist centre that he likes to go to deepen his knowledge on Tibetan Buddhist philosophy. This person that he knows is of Chinese decent, materially-privileged and leans towards the right in her politics. Manny said that it surprises him that this person can subscribe to right-wing political philosophy and still enjoys living in liberal cities such as Toronto and NYC.
I was reminded of something I saw from a content creator the other day, where he said that people of colour who sees themselves as conservatives aren't actual conservatives-they are just desperate for white supremacist's approval. Maybe the reason why the person that Manny knows likes to live in big liberal cities is because they feel safety among a diverse city. They do not want to live in a majority-white region because they know that they will be harassed. They will not feel safe. But they do in the cities such as Toronto, even though they feel that, politically, they would be in the minority.
They're perfectly happy to enjoy the benefits of a well-funded healthcare, transportation, and education systems. But they will vote against their best interests at every chance that they can get.
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