City Council At-Large race

[Anonymous]

jsteele wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

jsteele wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The fact that the owner of this website endorses Silverman tells you all you need to know

We do not need more white clueless left of left liberals running this town anymore.

When Silverman’s opponents make blatantly racial distinctions — would a clueless black left of left liberal pass muster? — it is easy to believe that they have the occasional anti-Semitic slip-up as well.

This looks like a clear example of the victim card playing that the many people who have gone on record have relayed about Silverman. It doesn’t come across as clever as you think it does.

If Silverman, as a white person, engaged in systematic condescending behavior towards people of color in one-on-one situations, the response that “wow, why are you pointing out her race?” sounds just like Republicans who used to call Obama the “real racist” for pointing out racial discrimination in America.

Blaming the victim is exactly what you are doing. The poster to whom I replied was the one who made race an issue. Now you blame me for pointing it out? LOL, about playing the "victim card". I guess you think poor PP is the real victim because I quoted her words?

The most liberal member of the Council is Janeese Lewis George. But, since she is not a "white clueless left of left liberals" is she okay to the previous poster? Are leftists okay as long as they are not white? If that is your position, then it is fair to ask what other races or ethnicities you oppose.

If you oppose Silverman because you think she has been condescending towards people of color, but you wink and nod to people who complain about "white" people on the Council, I doubt the sincerity of your initial concern.

What you seem to misunderstand is that Silberman’s race and the race of the people that she behaved condescendingly towards is important and germane to the very problematic interactions that they relay in detail. A council member goes EOTR to meet heavily majority Black and poor constituents and tells them they need “soft skills” to make it in the job market. The race of that council member makes a big difference in terms of context. Even if you want to pretend that it doesn’t.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

jsteele wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

jsteele wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The fact that the owner of this website endorses Silverman tells you all you need to know

We do not need more white clueless left of left liberals running this town anymore.

When Silverman’s opponents make blatantly racial distinctions — would a clueless black left of left liberal pass muster? — it is easy to believe that they have the occasional anti-Semitic slip-up as well.

This looks like a clear example of the victim card playing that the many people who have gone on record have relayed about Silverman. It doesn’t come across as clever as you think it does.

If Silverman, as a white person, engaged in systematic condescending behavior towards people of color in one-on-one situations, the response that “wow, why are you pointing out her race?” sounds just like Republicans who used to call Obama the “real racist” for pointing out racial discrimination in America.

Blaming the victim is exactly what you are doing. The poster to whom I replied was the one who made race an issue. Now you blame me for pointing it out? LOL, about playing the "victim card". I guess you think poor PP is the real victim because I quoted her words?

The most liberal member of the Council is Janeese Lewis George. But, since she is not a "white clueless left of left liberals" is she okay to the previous poster? Are leftists okay as long as they are not white? If that is your position, then it is fair to ask what other races or ethnicities you oppose.

If you oppose Silverman because you think she has been condescending towards people of color, but you wink and nod to people who complain about "white" people on the Council, I doubt the sincerity of your initial concern.

What you seem to misunderstand is that Silberman’s race and the race of the people that she behaved condescendingly towards is important and germane to the very problematic interactions that they relay in detail. A council member goes EOTR to meet heavily majority Black and poor constituents and tells them they need “soft skills” to make it in the job market. The race of that council member makes a big difference in terms of context. Even if you want to pretend that it doesn’t.

*Silverman

[jsteele]

Anonymous wrote:

jsteele wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

jsteele wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The fact that the owner of this website endorses Silverman tells you all you need to know

We do not need more white clueless left of left liberals running this town anymore.

When Silverman’s opponents make blatantly racial distinctions — would a clueless black left of left liberal pass muster? — it is easy to believe that they have the occasional anti-Semitic slip-up as well.

This looks like a clear example of the victim card playing that the many people who have gone on record have relayed about Silverman. It doesn’t come across as clever as you think it does.

If Silverman, as a white person, engaged in systematic condescending behavior towards people of color in one-on-one situations, the response that “wow, why are you pointing out her race?” sounds just like Republicans who used to call Obama the “real racist” for pointing out racial discrimination in America.

Blaming the victim is exactly what you are doing. The poster to whom I replied was the one who made race an issue. Now you blame me for pointing it out? LOL, about playing the "victim card". I guess you think poor PP is the real victim because I quoted her words?

The most liberal member of the Council is Janeese Lewis George. But, since she is not a "white clueless left of left liberals" is she okay to the previous poster? Are leftists okay as long as they are not white? If that is your position, then it is fair to ask what other races or ethnicities you oppose.

If you oppose Silverman because you think she has been condescending towards people of color, but you wink and nod to people who complain about "white" people on the Council, I doubt the sincerity of your initial concern.

What you seem to misunderstand is that Silberman’s race and the race of the people that she behaved condescendingly towards is important and germane to the very problematic interactions that they relay in detail. A council member goes EOTR to meet heavily majority Black and poor constituents and tells them they need “soft skills” to make it in the job market. The race of that council member makes a big difference in terms of context. Even if you want to pretend that it doesn’t.

Again, you are engaging in projection and it is actually you who is misunderstanding. Here is the post to which I have been responding:

"We do not need more white clueless left of left liberals running this town anymore"

I have bolded the word "white" since you seem to be unable to read it. The poster is not saying that a white candidate should not be condescending to voters or color -- though even then I would wonder why being condescending to white voters would be okay. Rather this poster is opposing any white leftists.

If you condone the type of absolutist race-based thinking represented by that quote, nothing you have to say about racial sensitivity has any legitimacy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why can't you accept that people do not like her for her condescending attitude? Sorry, she's not perfect.

Silverman is going to lose because she treats people like crap.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why can't you accept that people do not like her for her condescending attitude? Sorry, she's not perfect.

Silverman is going to lose because she treats people like crap.

In fairness she doesn’t treat everyone like crap, only the people that she doesn’t respect enough not to. And far too often those people seem to be the Black residents of the city.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:


I had a personal interaction with her once about 5 years ago. It was small potatoes, but I totally believe the condescending attitude. She's like a right-wing charicature of smarmy liberal who talks the talk but doesn't walk the walk. If I vote for her I'll be holding my nose.


I dont know her personally, but I find the accusations troubling and sadly believable. I am liberal and work with very liberal people but have encountered similar condescension towards people of color (I am one). I believe people EOTR as well as those like me EOTP want something more to be done about crime. We're fed up. Stop telling us what we believe. We want our streets to be safe, our neighborhood schools to be good. We want it to be safe for our children to walk to those schools. We want streets to be safe for everyone. Period. Doesn't matter the color of the skin of the criminal, they need to be held accountable and the current Council and Mayor aren't doing enough. Next time someone is carjacking your car in Ward 3, how about we send some violence interrupters to intervene? yeah, thought so. It doesn't cut it for you, it doesn't cut it for us.

Amen to that. In addition, the progressives on the Council are also driving business out of the District and seem not to understand that it is robust commercial activity and property taxes that fund these social programs they are so proud of. The more they tolerate crime, the less people want to live in the District. Older GenZ and Millennials are starting to flee the fancy apartments near Union Market because they are sick of the carjackings and gunfire. Downtown is a ghost town. The attitude of government bureaucrats that all the vacant office space will magically be converted to residential is laughable. The internal structures of most office buildings isn't conducive for conversion and even if it was converted, no one wants to live downtown because of the crime and the now vacant retail. Silverman and her ilk need to go.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:As a Ward 5 resident, I can tell you McDuffie is not it. Anyone else.

At least he is business friendly. I've had it with the laws that Council is passing: bikes don't have to stop, no right turns on red, if you offer a parking subsidy - starting in January 2023, you have pay every single employee $1200 a year as a bonus, if you offer a parking subsidy. Here we are trying to get people back downtown and they pass that dumb legislation.

I am sick of all of them. No way I'm voting for Elissa Silverman. Enough with the dumb progressive policies.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:As a Ward 5 resident, I can tell you McDuffie is not it. Anyone else.

At least he is business friendly. I've had it with the laws that Council is passing: bikes don't have to stop, no right turns on red, if you offer a parking subsidy - starting in January 2023, you have pay every single employee $1200 a year as a bonus, if you offer a parking subsidy. Here we are trying to get people back downtown and they pass that dumb legislation.

I am sick of all of them. No way I'm voting for Elissa Silverman. Enough with the dumb progressive policies.

Are those policies from Silverman? Do the other candidates have clean hands?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why can't you accept that people do not like her for her condescending attitude? Sorry, she's not perfect.

Silverman is going to lose because she treats people like crap.

In fairness she doesn’t treat everyone like crap, only the people that she doesn’t respect enough not to. And far too often those people seem to be the Black residents of the city.

Given that all DC residents are her constituents, she should not be bullying them. I've heard from too many people, white, brown, and black, that she bullies. If you mention she may be wrong on an issue, she resorts to name-calling.

Talk to people she reported on during her reporting days at the CityPaper and Post. You will find accounts of someone unconcerned with accuracy or with the loves affected by erroneous reporting.

She may have gotten some good policies off the ground, but she won't get my vote again.