Cea Weaver is over 35, with over a decade’s experience as a hard-knuckled professional advocate battling in New York politics — so why the heck did she burst into tears Wednesday when asked about her long history of remarks about the “violence” and “racism” of private property, which she wants the government to “seize”?
As chief of the Mayor’s Office to Protect Tenants, she’s messing with people’s homes, their lives, their lifesavings — and imperiously claiming all their private property is evil: They have every right to demand some explanations.
Maybe she wept at being revealed as a wee bit hypocritical: For all her claims that “private property and ESPECIALLY homeownership” is a “weapon of white supremacy,” she herself comes from a well-off family.
Weaver’s mom and dad each own comfortable suburban homes.
Are they white supremacists?
Instead of being (upper) middle class, should they be “impoverished,” as she prescribes for so many others?
If not, why not?
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Again, Weaver has long been in the public eye: She led the 2019 charge in Albany to end rent decontrol and spearheaded the “Cancel Rent” movement in 2020, saying rental payments should be done on the “honor system” and no one should ever be evicted.
And she knew that her demands to “Elect more communists!” were controversial, which is why she recently deleted her X account and so on: You only scrub your social media if it’s dirty.
Fact is, Weaver has spent her adult life in yet another privileged bubble — a blue-state leftist one: Democratic socialist struggle sessions may get ferocious, but only with some unwritten “safe space” ground rules. E.g., everyone in those circles implicitly agrees that their family backgrounds can’t be held against them, because they’re nearly all “class traitors.”
That’s why it’s all right for arch-radical Zohran Mamdani and his wife to have three wedding celebrations on three continents, to revel in the premium experience of gobbling omakase and to wear $700 boots.
It’s OK for them to own vacation homes and enjoy the finer things because they have the right opinions; it’s the people not enlightened about the finer points of socialist doctrine who are the problem.
So when folks outside the charmed circle snicker at Cea Weaver’s hypocrisy, she faces an unfamiliar, existential threat: None of her allies would ever be so vulgar as to point it out.
Yet she’s now a public official, who needs to be able to speak to the voters about what she really believes and plans to do — especially to those homeowners (many, perhaps most, of them not white) she means to see dispossessed.
Sorry, Cea, but taking questions from the press isn’t a Bryn Mawr microaggression.
Own up to your beliefs and explain them.
This story originally appeared on NYPost
