The Mamdani ‘college admissions’ coverage in the NYT is beyond shoddy. Despite three bylines (how many reporters does it take to lift hacked material from a eugenicist’s blog?) the story omits context about the admissions process that would further undermine their own crass take.
It strongly implies he is trying to trick his way into a university where,by the very fact he is a prof’s child, his application would *automatically* be treated differently (not necessarily more favorably, but with added attention and full knowledge of who he is).
Yeah that stuck out as - in a very competitive contest - the stupidest aspect of the story. Like... is he supposed to have believed they'd just go "who's this Mamdani kid, mmmm, says here he's black, cool cool, let him in"
Don’t contradict the paranoid fever dream with inconvenient facts…
#BoycottNYT