On Sunday morning, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo’s official Twitter account posted a clip of his remarks last month at a rally for Planned Parenthood where he proudly proclaimed allegiance with just about every class of person.
According to his office’s transcript of his remarks, Governor Cuomo said:
…as a New Yorker I am a Muslim. And as a New Yorker, I am Jewish. And as a New Yorker, I am a refugee. And as a New Yorker, I am black, and as a New Yorker I am gay, and as a New Yorker I am poor, and as a New Yorker I am homeless. And as a New Yorker I am a child who needs an education. And as I am a New Yorker I am a family living in poverty.
Beautiful.
In the video, you can hear Cuomo’s crowd roaring with approval, building with the governor to his climactic proclamation that “We are all connected and we are one. And if you infringe on the rights of one, you infringe on the rights of all. And if you attack one of us, you attack all of us.”
What if Cuomo had thrown “As a New Yorker, I am a Trump supporter” into his assortment of beleaguered minorities? Would the crowd cheer? After all, 37 percent of New York voted for Trump.
President Trump is a lifelong New Yorker. Does Cuomo’s statement, “If you attack one of us, you attack all of us,” not apply to him?
What about the president’s children, one of whom is both Jewish and a New Yorker, who have faced a barrage of disgusting attacks? Does he feel that all of New York is “attacked” every time they are?
Would the crowd have supported that assertion?
Even more relevant, Cuomo in the same speech called for a Constitutional amendment to protect abortion rights. The irony of professing support for the oppressed while rallying for a practice that is one of the greatest oppressors of humanity’s most vulnerable class of people is lost entirely on Cuomo.
In fact, Cuomo explicitly said in 2014 that pro-life people are not welcome in New York.
While Cuomo waxes poetic about solidarity and interconnectedness, he’s actively excluded and divided.
Cuomo does not have to care one bit about the Trumps, and nobody is saying he necessarily must include them or the unborn in his list of oppressed classes. But before thoughtlessly tossing together these word salads and trumpeting their recitation as acts of bravery, perhaps leftists like Governor Cuomo should ask whether they actually mean what they’re saying.
Chances are they don’t.
Emily Jashinsky is a commentary writer for the Washington Examiner.
