I confess that I haven’t paid a lot of attention to the Democrats’ candidate for Mayor of New York, Zohran Mamdani. Knowing he is a Communist who doesn’t think billionaires should exist seemed to be enough. So I just learned today, via InstaPundit, a few facts about his background. Perhaps they will be new to you, as well.
So many fascinating Zohran moments in this video.
“Growing up in post-apartheid South Africa, one of the most natural things to wear on my body was the kheffiya.”
Zohran lived in South Africa for two years when he was 5 years old.
“When you’re a South Asian Muslim growing up… pic.twitter.com/4AEpNH7z39
— Drew Pavlou 🇦🇺🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 (@DrewPavlou) June 30, 2025
Mamdani’s mother is a world-famous, Academy Award-nominated Bollywood director worth tens of millions of dollars. His father is a chaired professor at Columbia.
He is, in effect, a perpetual theatre kid who’s pretending to be “Third World.” It’s all so, so performative + stupid. https://t.co/dO14GmFMDI
— Renu Mukherjee (@RenuMukherjee1) June 29, 2025
He says he “grew up in the third world” but he was living in the United States attending private school since he was 7 years old—that’s not “code switching,” that’s lying. He is a spoiled, privileged young man playing today’s most popular parlor game “Look how oppressed I am.” https://t.co/TBLGNcdT16
— Maud Maron (@MaudMaron) June 29, 2025
What a poseur! It is all pretty appalling, but I am left with one question: why on Earth is Mamdani eating rice with his bare hands? Doesn’t he own silverware? Someone, get this man a fork!
Woody Allen, as authentic a child of the Third World as Zohran Mamdani, at least had the grace to use chopsticks:
