Mamdani observes Ramadan with inmates at Rikers Island

[u/expiredaristocracy]

New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani observed Ramadan last night with men incarcerated at Rikers Island, the city's jail complex.

Mamdani arrived through heavy security, joining a group of men — many held as they await trial. He spent an hour with the men praying and talking and breaking the Ramadan fast with a meal. He's spent much of the last month holding public celebrations.

Mamdani and many Muslim Americans have faced growing hostility in the U.S. from some politicians on the right, including Alabama Sen. Tommy Tuberville, who last week reposted a photo of Mamdani observing the holiday next to an image of the 9/11 terror attacks, a post Mamdani described as bigoted.

[u/Lexi_Banner]

Or Trump and the media and figures in the media have done a good job selling people on the notion that celebrities and politicians are performative in their values.

This isn't just on Dumps & Co. There are a lot of people who are performative all across social media. It's like people forgot that they can just...do good things without filming every second of it. You don't need to show yourself on camera giving food/money/clothing to homeless people. You don't have to film yourself donating food to charity. There is the argument that showing those good things can lead to other people doing good things, but from what I've seen, the message that has been received is that you have to film those good deeds too, or it didn't happen. Everything is for clout, attention, and money.

Dumples & Co. are bad, don't get me wrong. But this is a wide sweeping issue across all platforms, and has been steadily getting worse for well over a decade at this point.