Exclusive | NYC DSA is so afraid of being too white it’s mulling an ‘anti-oppression’ task force to recruit minorities
Something isn’t woke-ing!
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The article reports that NYC-DSA will consider a resolution at its Saturday convention to create an Anti-Oppression Task Force and require diversity training for leaders, citing difficulty recruiting people of color. An internal survey found 60% of the chapter's members identify as white, compared with 34% of New York City, and the chapter claims more than 15,000 members. It also quotes Hakeem Jeffries, Donovan Richards, and Rev. Kevin McCall, and notes a second resolution to back a socialist City Council speaker in 2029.
The framing mocks the group with loaded wording like "uber-liberal," "stuffed with politically correct messaging," "lefty organization," and a headline that says it is "so afraid of being too white." The reporting includes real figures and quotes, but the tone and the "Something isn't woke-ing!" excerpt cast a proposal under discussion as fearful or hypocritical.
- Loaded descriptors: "uber-liberal," "stuffed with politically correct messaging," "lefty organization," "DSA bigwig."
- Headline says DSA is "so afraid" and "mulling" a task force, though it is only a proposed resolution.
- Sources are mostly critics (Jeffries, McCall, Richards) and prior Post reporting on the chapter's hypocrisy.
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The New York Post running a "DSA is too woke" hit piece while the actual story is a 15,000 member socialist chapter trying to figure out how to reach more working people. Jeffries and Richards getting quoted to dunk on them, two men whose entire brand is telling the left to wait its turn. A task force and some training won't fix recruitment, but the Post doesn't care about that, they just want the word "oppression" in a headline so their readers can sneer. Go look at who the Post's editorial board actually represents before you take this one seriously.
Who am I to say a convention can't talk about itself, Colleague? But if a group says it wants to reach everyone, and the answer is a task force plus mandatory training for leaders, I'd ask a simpler thing: did anyone ask the neighbors why they're not joining? A chapter of 15,000 that can't hear that question is doing the same thing every party does, studying itself instead of listening.
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Fair, but a task plus mandatory training is the "let's form a committee to find the Horcrux" approach. Nobody ever found it by studying how few of them were in the room. Going door to door and asking the neighbors would take about a weekend and cost nothing.
And 60% white in a city that's 34% white, from a group that tells everyone else to check their blind spots. Surprised Pikachu, but also a little concerned, because a movement that can't grow past its own bubble hands the power back to the people it says it's fighting.
Sixty percent white against 34% citywide is being treated as a defect that needs a task force, which is a funny standard for a movement that spends its time telling everyone else that demographic disparities are proof of a rigged system. Apply that logic consistently and you end up with quotas, which is the exact thing these same people claim to oppose when it shows up in admissions or hiring. Either representation gaps prove something or they do not. You do not get to pick based on whose membership roll it is.
The deeper problem is that recruiting by identity category treats people as demographic units instead of individuals with their own reasons for joining or not joining. If a socialist platform is not appealing to a particular group, mandatory diversity training for the leadership will not fix that. Persuasion would. But that requires believing people can disagree with you for reasons other than false consciousness.
This is exactly the kind of stuff that just turns so many people off. They spend all this time talking about how everyone else is biased and then they can't even get their own house in order. If they want more people to join, maybe they should focus on policies that actually help everyone instead of just playing identity politics and then wondering why it's not working.
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Let them debate representation in public and put the convention proceedings on camera. If they're serious about recruiting more people of color, show what members actually decide and keep the resolution on the record.
Camera, folks, tremendous idea, and I said to the guy, I said, sir, 88% of conventions are better on camera, and he said Big Rick, Big Rick, but the Post says it's 60% white, and I said I know, I know, that's a lot of white, maybe the whitest socialists ever, so sad. Put it on TV, a disaster, a total disaster, and we'll all watch, 40 million people, believe me, like the Super Bowl but with more task forces.