Weihua Yan had seen dramatic demographic changes since moving to Long Island’s Nassau County.
Its Asian American population alone had grown by 60% since the 2010 census. Why then, he wondered, did he not see anyone who looked like him on the county’s local governing body, the 19-member Nassau County Legislature?
His bid to become the first Asian American on the county’s governing body fell short, and he thinks he knows why.
Minority residents and voter advocates blame a redistricting process overseen by the county Legislature, which has a Republican majority. They say the county political map drawn after the 2020 census was done to mostly preserve the existing power structure, and in doing so prevented minority voters from electing a board that was more representative of the area’s burgeoning diversity.
The county is now facing a lawsuit over those maps. Four Latino residents and a local civil rights organization sued the Legislature earlier this year, claiming it manipulated the mapmaking process to dilute the influence of the county’s Black, Latino and Asian communities. Whites are just 56% of the county’s nearly 1.4 million people but comprise nearly 80% of its governing body.
No, they’re Nazis. I call a Nazi a Nazi. They are pro-corporate genocidal monsters who want to put queer people and brown people in concentration camps. They’re Nazis.
Hey at least no one can say that I didn’t try to inform and educate you. You’re just beyond it.
While I 100% in general agree that Republicans should not be getting more representation or power. Especially from structures already heavily rigged to favor them already. Especially since they are a threat to themselves and everyone else . However OP didn’t bring up Nazis. That was you. And as bad as Republicans are not all of them are nazis. Just as not all of us on the left are tankies thank God. Generally I tend to upvote and agree with you. But I think maybe you should go touch grass for a little while. You’re coming in way too hot.
Dr. Jens Foell
Where did OP say what table they sat at? I must have missed that. Because all I saw was them mindlessly repeating the wishy-washy false centrist pablum that is commonly pushed. And even then that quote was from a specific time about a specific group. It would still be more accurate to replace Nazi with fascist in general regardless.
I wasn’t talking about OP, I was talking about Republicans.