New York Times Double Standard

New York Times Race-Polices Zohran Mamdani Using Stolen Property

The Editors are no fans of Zohran Mamdani, to put it mildly. But we’re no fans of the New York Times, either. The Times scoop that when Mamdani applied to Columbia in 2009 he checked the “Black or African American” box on the application deserves more skeptical treatment than it has so far generally received.

First, it demonstrates breathtaking hypocrisy by the Times. When, during the 2024 presidential campaign, Donald Trump questioned Kamala Harris’s racial self-identification, the Times attacked him for it. The Times called it “ugly” and “divisive.”

Yet now that it’s not President Trump doing the race-policing of Kamala Harris but the New York Times doing the race-policing of Zohran Mamdani, instead of being “incendiary,” “ugly,” or “divisive,” it’s just New York Times journalism.

It’s almost like the Times has a double standard where it calls President Trump racist for doing things that the Times does itself. Either the Times owes Trump an apology or it owes Zohran Mamdani an apology, but any attempt to justify why Trump’s comment is really a lot worse than the Times article seems pretty strained. Maybe I am missing some fine distinction.

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