How can socialist Zohran Mamdani revel in his family's colonial privilege?
Any candidate could have been out of town in late July, but no others would be partying at a grand colonial compound an ocean away from home.
And it's an extra-icky look for a socialist who's supposedly pro-equality and anti-imperialistic.
Yes, the gated Mamdani spread in the ritzy Buziga Hill neighborhood of Kampala, Uganda, belongs to Zohran's Hollywood-director mom and Columbia radical-prof dad, but he plainly feels fully privileged to enjoy it.
And the belated wedding celebration with his wife, Rama Duwaji, ran for three days, a party guarded by a privacy-ensuring phone-jamming system, and a mini army of private security: No fewer than 20 special forces soldiers by the property gate to guard the invite-only event.
Quite the look for a politician who's repeatedly called for New Yorkers to go without police protection — including battered women and other victims of domestic abuse.
He's also slammed the NYPD as supposedly 'anti-queer,' despite partying in country whose penalties for being gay range from life imprisonment to death, not to mention the rest of Uganda's abysmal human rights record.
The country is plagued with child labor, child marriage and child soldiers, female mutilation in some eastern regions, and authoritarianism under President Yoweri Museveni.
The prez, who's been in power since 1986, was even spotted in the same neighborhood as the lavish party, although it's unclear whether he attended.
And no, it doesn't matter that Mamdani has criticized Uganda's excesses: What does all his socialist talk even mean when the whole family does nothing but walk the global-elite walk?
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