{"id":870915,"date":"2026-06-16T10:17:17","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T10:17:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/870915\/"},"modified":"2026-06-16T10:17:17","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T10:17:17","slug":"editors-note-woke-1-was-crazyyyy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/870915\/","title":{"rendered":"Editor\u2019s note: Woke 1 was crazyyyy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Confronted last month with an eyebrow-raising tweet of his from 2021, New York City Council Member Chi Oss\u00e9 gave the perfect dismissal: \u201cWoke 1 was crazyyyy.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

By \u201cWoke 1,\u201d of course, the Gen Z socialist was referring to the social phenomenon that peaked in the COVID-19 and Black Lives Matter summer of 2020 and flamed out soon after retired cop Eric Adams became the mayor. Think of performative racial consciousness, calls to defund the police and heavy use of the word \u201cproblematic.\u201d<\/p>\n

The core ideas haven\u2019t disappeared in New York politics, but they\u2019re less widespread and the presentation is different. In 2021, Oss\u00e9 was tweeting<\/a>, \u201cA cis white man should not be the next speaker of the Council.\u201d In 2026, Oss\u00e9 was shrugging, and maybe cringing, tacitly acknowledging he wouldn\u2019t say it today without explicitly denouncing his past words.\u00a0<\/p>\n

That\u2019s a skill Zohran Mamdani honed as he sought to defend his 2025 citywide mayoral candidate self from his 2020 Assembly candidate self. And that\u2019s a skill that Darializa Avila Chevalier is honing right now, in real time, as Holly Pretsky writes in this week\u2019s cover profile of the uptown socialist insurgent.<\/a> She was \u201ca millennial with an internet connection,\u201d and she would say things differently now.<\/p>\n

Clearly, enough voters were willing to forgive Mamdani for calling the New York City Police Department racist and anti-queer in the summer of 2020. Wasn\u2019t every Democrat left of then-City Council Member Bob Holden doing the same? Of course, Mamdani\u2019s mayoral campaign was also building on a base that didn\u2019t need to forgive him, because they agreed with him.\u00a0<\/p>\n

That\u2019s a base that included Avila Chevalier who was, for lack of a better term, even more woke than DSA. Can she unseat progressive-in-Washington, moderate-back-home Espaillat? This race is crazyyyy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Confronted last month with an eyebrow-raising tweet of his from 2021, New York City Council Member Chi Oss\u00e9…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":870916,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,154640,56383,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,1269,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,5301],"class_list":["post-870915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-america","tag-dsa","tag-editors-note","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-newyork","tag-newyorkcity","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-opinion","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa","tag-zohran-mamdani"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116759274948208101","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/870915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=870915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/870915\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/870916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=870915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=870915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=870915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}