‘Violence Is an Artificial Construct’: Old Videos, Tweets From Zohran Mamdani Resurface
“We can’t reform our way out of a racist police system that’s working exactly as designed – as a means of control over black & brown New Yorkers. We need to dramatically curtail the power & presence of the NYPD.”
Sometimes, the best way to demonstrate the dangers of electing certain candidates to higher office is by letting them speak for themselves.
Zohran Mamdani, the presumptive Democrat mayoral nominee for New York City, is one of those people.
While the New York Assemblyman has been presented as the “relatable” socialist (as if there is such a thing) despite his racist, antisemitic, and anti-American tendencies – and smooth-talked his way ahead of former NY Gov. Andrew Cuomo in both the polls and the primary, statements he’s made over the years and stances that he’s taken paint quite a different picture.
Without further ado, here is Zohran Mamdani in his own words (mostly from a Twitter/X thread compiled by user @Izengabe_):
Zohran Mamdani on why he wants to empty jails: "VioIence is an artificial construct" pic.twitter.com/N4G7jSmEDX
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) June 26, 2025
Fraudulent Communist candidate for NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani is grilled about why he uses multiple different accents: “As any immigrant knows, having been born in Uganda and raised in South Africa, is there are different parts of my life.” pic.twitter.com/upmn2BjwlG
— TheBlaze (@theblaze) June 24, 2025
Our feminism is inspired by Tillmon's vision.
Every man, woman & child should be guaranteed all that they needed to live, because that's what human dignity demands.
And we should stop demanding women pick up the slack for our failure to live up to that responsibility. (5/5) pic.twitter.com/on6Szrz9iZ
— Zohran Kwame Mamdani (@ZohranKMamdani) April 29, 2020
We need to abolish private insurance, institute single-payer & nationalize the medical supply chain immediately. This is no time to put the ideology of capitalism above helping those who are in the greatest need.
Lives are at stake. https://t.co/DqzzUVbWuC
— Zohran Kwame Mamdani (@ZohranKMamdani) April 5, 2020
Under capitalism, housing is a commodity from which landlords & developers extract huge profits while our communities suffer eviction, foreclosure & displacement.
A socialist vision for housing means a #HomesGuarantee. Here's our plan for one in New York: https://t.co/wYDGTV77q2
— Zohran Kwame Mamdani (@ZohranKMamdani) December 6, 2019
We can’t reform our way out of a racist police system that’s working exactly as designed – as a means of control over black & brown New Yorkers.
We need to dramatically curtail the power & presence of the NYPD.
$1B in cuts over 4 years is only the first step toward that goal. pic.twitter.com/ihhCjsUmd0
— Zohran Kwame Mamdani (@ZohranKMamdani) June 1, 2020
There's a movement in Queens to do just that, led by formerly incarcerated New Yorkers, public defenders, social workers & political organizers.
That was the coalition behind Tiffany Cabán's historic run for Queens DA.
Astoria was with that movement. But our opponent wasn't. pic.twitter.com/sN54ghpDfP
— Zohran Kwame Mamdani (@ZohranKMamdani) June 19, 2020
This might be his craziest tweet…
Imagine moving to another country and after just 2 years of being a citizen, you are working to tear down their statues and monuments.
Insane levels of arrogance. pic.twitter.com/9rIfvpSl5S
— Geiger Capital (@Geiger_Capital) June 28, 2025
Queer liberation means defund the police. https://t.co/cuuwBI9dsv
— Zohran Kwame Mamdani (@ZohranKMamdani) November 6, 2020
We don't need an investigation to know that the NYPD is racist, anti-queer & a major threat to public safety.
What we need is to #DefundTheNYPD.
But your deal with @NYCMayor uses budget tricks to keep as many cops as possible on the beat.
NO to fake cuts – defund the police. https://t.co/2RCXU8heg2
— Zohran Kwame Mamdani (@ZohranKMamdani) June 29, 2020
We will support existing decarceral legislation that will:
🌹End cash bail
🌹Repeal the "walking while trans" ban
🌹Decriminalize sex work
🌹Legalize marijuana
🌹Permit safe injection sites
🌹Restrict solitary confinement
🌹Enact elder parole
🌹Re-enfranchise incarcerated NYers— Zohran Kwame Mamdani (@ZohranKMamdani) January 22, 2020
Our neighbors in shelters need accommodations conducive to social distancing.
NY should exercise eminent domain & acquire:
🌹The 4k+ unsold luxury apartments in NYC, for homeless families.
🌹Hotels, for both street & shelter homeless.
Read our plan👉🏽 https://t.co/m6RBgpJxsL https://t.co/F0NQGgN1y2
— Zohran Kwame Mamdani (@ZohranKMamdani) March 20, 2020
Yesterday @MelindaKatz announced her office will "aggressively prosecute" buyers of sex in a new human trafficking bureau.
But conflating trafficking with consensual sex work won't help anyone.
DA Katz must listen to sex workers & their demand for full #decrim.
My statement: pic.twitter.com/pt97t4pw5p
— Zohran Kwame Mamdani (@ZohranKMamdani) May 19, 2020
When @NYGovCuomo refuses to tax the rich, he’s refusing to let workers enjoy the wealth they created.
When he says low taxes foster a “business-friendly environment,” he means an environment where it’s easy for bosses to steal from workers.
Taxation isn’t theft. Capitalism is. pic.twitter.com/wEZi3Q4dGL
— Zohran Kwame Mamdani (@ZohranKMamdani) October 15, 2020
On October 8, 2023, Zohran Mamdani couldn't even condemn a horrific terrorist attack – one that included the murder, rape and kidnapping of over a thousand innocent civilians – without blaming the victims.
This morally bankrupt man must never be in a position of leadership. https://t.co/QvgPJ0LH92
— Joel M. Petlin (@Joelmpetlin) June 19, 2025
🌹End the exploitation of prison labor and enact a minimum wage for incarcerated workers.
🌹Make all calls and emails to and from people incarcerated in state jails and prisons free.
🌹Make all of these long-overdue policies permanent after the outbreak ends. (4/4)
— Zohran Kwame Mamdani (@ZohranKMamdani) March 15, 2020
Mamdani has also been casually racist against white people he sees on the street. pic.twitter.com/jonFnCiK4h
— Izengabe (@Izengabe_) June 28, 2025
Mamdani says he's going to "Going to provide $65 million of funding for gender-affirming care."pic.twitter.com/VWdG5qzz9H
— (news) DOGE (@DOGE__news) June 25, 2025
Socialist NYC mayoral contender Zohran Mamdani wants to hike property taxes for ‘richer and whiter neighborhoods.’ Read today's cover here: https://t.co/UhaYfEBPKY pic.twitter.com/dP6hfZKdCe
— New York Post (@nypost) June 28, 2025
And now, some final thoughts from Chicago columnist John Kass:
The left has already killed Chicago. Los Angeles was burned by fire and riots. New York still has a pulse, but the communist will squeeze the vibrancy of the city that never sleeps. And if things don’t go his way, his army will tear the city apart. Some of us have seen this movie before. It ends with illiterate cave dwellers wandering past the broken Statue of Liberty, unaware of what it once meant.
Those who remain in the dying cities are left with the festering Democrat trinity: decaying civic infrastructure, high violent crime, crushing high taxes. And public schools controlled by the Democrat storm troops of the teachers’ unions that can’t even teach children to read and write as the AI revolution sweeps down on the globe while raking away the illiterate chaff.
[…]
After Johnson, Bass, Mamdani have finished preening and what will be left of their cities?
The murder of crows edge closer, And the violent bear it away.
Remember in November.
-Stacey Matthews has also written under the pseudonym “Sister Toldjah” and can be reached via Twitter/X.-
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A swift kick to the groin will disabuse Zohan of that notion!!! It won’t be Sweet n’ Low.
That would be constructive
Good luck hitting anything.
To paraphrase Mike Tyson: Everyone thinks violence is an artificial construct, until they get punched in the face.
Let’s see you do it, tough guy. Oh yeah, I forgot, you talk the talk but you don’t walk the walk.
The House N shows again, looking for racism in all the wrong places.
To you JR, blacks (and now brown) need you to continually look for racism from whites, when it’s right in front of you from the very dark skinned people you feel compelled to defend.
The racist in this site? YOU.
The wanna be mayor of New York will have whites run out of town, not long after the blacks and browns rob them, and steal from them, like South Africa.
Yet, crickets from you. You racist scum. I hope that you at the first in line to get your comeuppance. But I doubt that will happen, because you live in a lily white neighborhood where black and brown people can’t enter.
Racist much?
Did you read the post? It was a comment pointing out the idiocy of something said by Mamdani, not a call to action nor a statement of personal intent.
Sheesh, JR. Even for a troll you’re not very sharp.
You sure do talk a lot of shit in the Comments section, “tough guy.”
Why don’t you stick to being a failed lawyer masquerading as a “real conservative?”
You do much better at that than being a blog shit talker.
“Land, peace, bread!” “Workers of New York… revolt… all that you will lose is your freedom!” The Dems created this, they own it and it will sweep over the Old Guard like Mugabe’s Gukurahundi. Hopefully, it can be stopped but if not….serious measures must be taken to limit this to NYC…. with no escape.
“VioIence is an artificial construct”
You mean, like my speech?
And my silence?
Damn, that’s a relief. Finally!
If this is your silence I’d hate to experience what you consider your noise!
Since starting on the Gelusil, it’s far less frequent.
Double the dosage?
Trust me, you’d prefer the noise.
Gefilte fish of the world revolt-you have nothing to lose but your chrain.
Sun Tzu: “Never interrupt your opponent while he is in the middle of making a mistake.” Just sit back and chuckle while the New York Dems are making fools of themselves.
These kooky lefties are all the same. They make empty, impassioned assertions, laden with tired, overused academic buzzwords, strung together like a cheap dime store necklace.
And the use of Lenin-era editorial cartoons is priceless!
Now I’ve got a yen for a rousing game of Monopoly.
NY Versions – even better!
https://www.amazon.com/Monopoly-Board-Game-Queens-NY/dp/B0DGQK7VBD
https://www.amazon.com/Brooklyn-Monopoly-Board-Game-Family/dp/B09GW8DXD5/ref=pd_sim_hxwPM1_sspa_dk_detail_d_sccl_3_1/139-6349880-2990524?pd_rd_w=eZwbA&content-id=amzn1.sym.3a852a98-d65f-4301-9bd0-9b589b14d1ef&pf_rd_p=3a852a98-d65f-4301-9bd0-9b589b14d1ef&pf_rd_r=CYA5P3WB3JZ9QG4V7FAY&pd_rd_wg=krARp&pd_rd_r=f1dcca64-e227-427e-bd3c-b07a4eb2d442&pd_rd_i=B09GW8DXD5&psc=1
https://www.amazon.com/Late-for-the-Sky-5510943/dp/B00000JMS9/ref=asc_df_B00000JMS9?tag=bingshoppinga-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=80882875798487&hvnetw=o&hvqmt=e&hvbmt=be&hvdev=c&hvlocint=59981&hvlocphy=&hvtargid=pla-4584482455486955&psc=1
Monopoly Socialism would be even better.
https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/286126/monopoly-socialism
I’m stealing your comment to save! Delicious wording.
Except substitute Temu, because nobody knows what a dime store is anymore.
This is how Islam takes over. Talking some b.s. pie in the sky that the young and dumb and his fellow islamists love to hear. He’s just commenting out of his behind and doesn’t seem to know the meaning or ramifications of his spewings.
Oh no he knows EXACTLY what he’s saying. It’s probably focus group checked and is certainly expertly strategized. Remember how Obama came out of nowhere, spent a couple fast years in the Senate, and then he was president? (Eligibility never really, um, checked. Oath never properly taken.) This guy is said to be working with Obama, his mother directed Queen of Katwe, he’s part of that team.
He needs to be asked surprise questions and the answers recorded.
Given this guy’s stated views on feminism, homosexuality, and trans, it’s very hard to believe he is a muslim. Someone should let the crazy muslims in his area know his views and ask do they tolerate such an apostate.
BTW: He is a walking talking advertisement for eliminating immigration of indians, ugandans, and south africans. I’d say muslims too but I;ve been told that is racist or something.
Muslims are allowed to lie and deceive to gain power over the infidels. This is called Taqyya.
I know; however, they are still crazies.
Not all. Look at Iran’s progress developing both bombs and missiles. Maybe Russia started them off, but they caught on and did a lot themselves. There are some smart ethnicities under Islam, and they’re coming for us.
Crazy doesn’t mean stupid.
The Iranians reversed-engineered a lot of US tech, including the Phoenix missile, keeping their aging F-14s in the fight well past their prime.
Persian muslims are different than Arab and other Muslims.
To Dave Gin Oly: they also are doing a remarkable job of keeping very old airliners in service – safely – long after the rest of the world retired them. One of the Iranian airlines had the last scheduled passenger service on Boeing 707s.
This is true. But that doesn’t mean Muslims can’t be convinced that he needs a lesson in Islam. How will they know he’s trying to deceive the unbelievers?
Taqiyya.
He’s like Obama in that way — and in many other ways, and was recently GPS’ed located at Obama’s house in DC right after the voting according to one thing I read. His mom directed Queen of Katwe so she’s very hooked into media, and that’s why his face has been visible for a while with his various media stunts.
Islam doesn’t mind lying to populations they are trying to conquer, implementing the opposite of Sharia to bring a population to subjugation. Likewise China pushes that garbage here they rigorously don’t allow within China, where the government pushes traditional morality in sexual matters.
I’ll take South African farmers over the Armenian gangsters and welfare leeches that took over Glendale California.
Well I wasn’t referring to the white SA refugees but the ones current oppressing and sometimes killing them as well as the Uganda Indian or is it Indian Ugandan.
Taqiyya.
In moslem philosophy, lying to advance Islam is not only allowed, but blessed by pedophile mohammad and Satan/Allah.
Mayor? I would vote this delusional Communist to run a public toilet.
Socialist worker: Don’t feel like doing that today.
“VioIence is an artificial construct”
Tell that to the gang-raped women in London and Stockholm.
Tell that to Reginald Denny.
some are imported
some are homegrown
doesnt matter
a weed is a weed and it only gets stronger when the sh is fed to them so they can then spew it out on the rest of us
Makes you want to punch him in the face.
That would be constructive too.
Reporter: “Where did you come up with all these crazy ideas to turn NYC into a third world cesspool?”
Mamdani: “I was born in Uganda, grew up in South Africa and raised a muslim.”
NY Jews will vote for him?
There is a group “Jews for Zohran”. Go figure,
Every member of which is a Marxist way more than they’re Jewish.
God often referred to His People as “stiff necked”.
Does that mean the same thing as “thickheaded” among Italians?
Now with Islam right on top of them, it’s time for them to get over their love of communism long enough to fend off actual enemies.
Bernie and what relative?
He has a son that ran for rep in vermont but lost, Same politics though.
Apparently, yes. Mamdani won the endorsement of Brad Lermer, NYC’s Jewish Comptroller (a financial position, no lerss), and Lerner even campaigned with Mamdani in order to softem his anti-semitic stance. Lerner is a progressive, brought up as a Reformed Jew. And I remember what Millhouse said about Reform Jews in a different thread: in his view, they are not realky Jews. Guess not.
Sorry! I can’t proof read worth a darn!
If violence is an artificial construct, then the Palestinians are fine. What’s he complaining about?
He’s an antisemite so to him, the Palestinians probably are fine doing just they’ve been doing where they are.
Me to my dad as I was about to get my behind tanned for another indiscretion: “Violence never solves anything.” Dad: “Well, it will solve this one thing.” Whack
According to this video linked above https://x.com/theblaze/status/1937542944862437856
his mother was the director of the Disney movie Queen of Katwe.
He’s the expert at social messaging! And shaming us that law enforcement is too much social control …
A ten-year-old movie I’ve never heard of before today.
Curious: Katwe is an anagram for “weak t.”
Or maybe just plain “tweak.”
Don’t minimize it. I remember it, I would never go see it (now I would if I were on the team trying to stop Mamdani — a team that had better form up fast rather than running 4 different candidates against him all to his right) but I have enough dim awareness of what’s going on in public to know it was released.
I hasten to add that, in addition to his childish ramblings and general ignorance on philosophy, economics, the law, and just about everything else, he couldn’t even rap. Want to derail his campaign? Play his music.
Have you ever been to NYC? Ethnic grunge is popular with at least a certain segment of society there. And that segment plus almost all the LGBTQ+ vote was enough to win him the Dem primary.
I admit I don’t appreciate the finer points of ethnic grunge. I didn’t even know it was called that. When I heard him, I thought he was experiencing some sort of bowel disorder.
Maybe they’ll start to get it when the moslem starts throwing them off the roofs, if elected.
To be honest I don’t hear a difference between “good” rap and “bad” rap.
So what do we do now? If there were one person I would swear could never be elected in NYC, it would be the man of the nursing homes, Andrew Cuomo, for what he did to as governor.
Now he’s the strongest candidate against Mamdani? Are bereaved families forced to vote for him to stop the march of the radical left? This is surreal but it’s all too real.
Sliwa thinks he could win if the others drop out, but knowing Cuomo he will never drop out since he’s such an ass, so maybe Sliwa has to drop out too. Sad.
The people who voted for this twatwaffle in the primary don’t give two cents about what Cuomo did during the pandemic. All they heard was “free stuff, no cops, guaranteed income, gender-affirming care” etc.. Cuomo could have been Mother Teresa, wouldn’t have made a difference.
^This right here. There’s no depth to his voters. They’re part of the uneducated and none-too-bright FSA (“Free Shit Army”) who will vote for whichever leftist con artist promises them the most slop from the public trough. And if said con artist can rant against hated enemies with the cause of the week (in this case, the “Palestinians”) it’s even better.
I don’t think this is the case. Mamdani’s base is college educated affluent liberals. They have cushy laptop-based jobs. The FSA, as you put it, voted for Cuomo.
I think it’s just luxury beliefs voting yet again for socialism. Defund the police? Sure! Government food stores? Sure! Tax the white people neighborhoods? Yeah! These aren’t FSA beliefs. This your latte liberal class in action.
“If there were one person I would swear could never be elected in NYC, it would be the man of the nursing homes, Andrew Cuomo, for what he did to as governor. Now he’s the strongest candidate against Mamdani?”
It’s the second chapter of the Democrat playbook. Obama/Biden. Biden/Harris. Biden/Buttigieg. It’s how they race to the bottom. What’s important is the name recognition, that’s what gets the votes.
I’ll put a prediction here. Mamdani is the next mayor of NYC. The rest of the vote will be split, no non-hated candidate (i.e. not Cuomo) will emerge as Mamdani’s opponent, and Cuomo has massive and unchangeable negatives with both women and families that lost members during Covid or almost did.
Mamdani will have expert and pervasive help in the media, notwithstanding WaPo’s denunciation. Not all media owners are Jeff Bezos. NY Times might endorse him. He will all the help the Obama machine can give, including get-out-the-vote, illegal voting, conservative voter suppression, and “expert” vote counting.
Andrew Cuomo refuses to drop out. Aren’t we cooked?
Disclaimer: I am certainly not a prophet. I hope this is wrong.
Doesn’t matter. NYC survive de Blasio and Dinkins. It will survive this guy.
It might drive some of the more thick necked progressive Jews away from the dramacrats.
It might drive businesses out of NYC. Some of the thick necked progressive money types might reevaluate their allegiance to the dramacrat party.
It will definitely help republicans,.
This is all good.
IMO this guy could drive the financial industry out of NY City, which would be a major long term and possibly unrecoverable negative for both the city and state. I also think it would be a plus for Elise Stefanik winning as governor in 2026.
Detroit is technically alive too. Cities don’t really die so much as rot. If this socialist clown accomplishes a quarter of what he promises the city is done for, but even if he doesn’t it’ll fall apart simply by mismanagement. And the thick necked progressive money types will *never* reevaluate their beliefs.
The more insane this guy sounds (and he sounds VERY insane) the more convinced I am that he is going to win the election.
It’s amazing how so many people segregate tanned peoples by calling them brown It is scientifically questionable at best. India Indians, Europeans, Arabs, Persians, North Africans, North and South Americans who for centuries were descendants of Europeans are all structurally the same – Caucasians.
As far as I’m concerned, this NY man is a caucasian. He is using rhetoric to advance himself. As are so many others to show their virtue signaling.
I’m glad I got my kids to NYC before this insane stupidity began. NYC WAS a great city to visit.
Mao-mdani!!!
We are entering the stage of collapse in which a unified energized 30% faction of the electorate can prevail over the demoralized and disorganized majority. In other words, similar to the situation in the early 1930s in the Weimar Republic.
The interesting question for me is whether the NYSE will remain in New Yprk if Mamdani is elected Mayor? I don’t see how it can.
I wonder if he’d still say that “Violence Is an Artificial Construct” if he got punched in the nose.
Only 31% of NYC residents own their home. That means 69% don’t think they are paying taxes. That is why people like this are elected. Doesn’t matter to them if taxes go up. All they care about is what they get for free. Even bankruptcy means nothing. The price of Florida real estate is going up again.
We need to dramatically curtail the power & presence of Communist 7th Century primitives.
We need to dramatically curtail the power & presence of Communist 7th Century primitives.
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