Thank you for covering this. If it got top-of-page national press coverage as it should, instead of being buried, most people would be appalled. I hope. Maybe I'm being too optimistic. Lander claims to have been unaware--so he's admitting his hiring process was sloppy and incompetent? Mamdani stays silent, Lander still apparently thinks Mamdani can do no wrong...gaah.
I first read the awful details about Kaif Gilani at Times of Israel--(before scrolling waaaay down the NYT's homepage to unearth their piece)--and burst out laughing when I realized this "Hot Girls for Zohran" founder was a man. Thanks for pointing out that not-so-trivial detail. That is so on-brand for a brocialist. It's particularly creepy when juxtaposed with his obscenely misogynist tweet linked from the ToI piece (which was only delicately hinted at in the NYT piece).
The antisemitic conspiracy lies about the JFK assassination and 9/11 are depressingly common on far right and far left (e.g. Jamaal Bowman). Wishing death on Biden (while imagining him guilty of things that make the hate righteous) reminds me of seeing cosplay leftists online in 2016 hoping Hillary Clinton would die (in specific ways)--none were outed as campaign staff, though, as far as I know. I don't think it's that hard to not hire these people.
Thank you for covering this. If it got top-of-page national press coverage as it should, instead of being buried, most people would be appalled. I hope. Maybe I'm being too optimistic. Lander claims to have been unaware--so he's admitting his hiring process was sloppy and incompetent? Mamdani stays silent, Lander still apparently thinks Mamdani can do no wrong...gaah.
I first read the awful details about Kaif Gilani at Times of Israel--(before scrolling waaaay down the NYT's homepage to unearth their piece)--and burst out laughing when I realized this "Hot Girls for Zohran" founder was a man. Thanks for pointing out that not-so-trivial detail. That is so on-brand for a brocialist. It's particularly creepy when juxtaposed with his obscenely misogynist tweet linked from the ToI piece (which was only delicately hinted at in the NYT piece).
The antisemitic conspiracy lies about the JFK assassination and 9/11 are depressingly common on far right and far left (e.g. Jamaal Bowman). Wishing death on Biden (while imagining him guilty of things that make the hate righteous) reminds me of seeing cosplay leftists online in 2016 hoping Hillary Clinton would die (in specific ways)--none were outed as campaign staff, though, as far as I know. I don't think it's that hard to not hire these people.