🇵🇭🇨🇳 Young Asian Dems Vice Chair
Bronx, NY
Joined July 2020
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I Am Unapologetically Immigrant. Filipino. Chinese. Asian. Generation Z.
Pretty sure this is what Nazi’s said about the Jewish people right before they enacted policy to corrale them into concentration camps and commit extermination and genocide.
The threat to America are corrupt white politicians who demonize communities to keep their hold on power.
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If any elected official hides their racial or spiritual prejudice behind the First Amendment, let’s be honest about what that is: cowardice.
Prejudice dressed up as “freedom” is still prejudice. Leaders who hide moral erosion behind the Constitution are traitors to democracy.
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Here we go again.
The wealthy and politically powerful manufacture another war. And working class people will be asked to die for it.
It’s politicians chasing legacy, corporations chasing contracts, and elites playing geopolitical chess.
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Meanwhile the architects of war sit safely behind podiums and television studios talking about strategy and national security.
Their children will never see the front line.
Defense contractors make billions. Stock prices move. Politicians deliver speeches about patriotism.
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Donald Trump does not get to drag this country into another war because of ego, impulse, or political distraction. An attack on Iran without clear congressional authorization is reckless and unconstitutional. Full stop.
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Endless war doesn’t make us safer. It drains resources from healthcare, education, housing, and economic stability while defense contractors cash in.
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Let’s be honest: when the U.S. escalates conflict with a Muslim-majority country,
Muslim Americans pay the social price.
Mosques get threats. Kids get bullied. Families feel watched. War rhetoric fuels Islamophobia.
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Nationalism loves a small “we.” Democracy demands a big one.
If your “ours” requires shrinking someone else’s rights, it was never about belonging. It was about control.
A country isn’t owned. It’s shared.
The moment “us” becomes a weapon, it stops being patriotic.
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Let’s be clear about the First Amendment.
It protects you from government punishment. It does NOT protect you from public accountability
You can legally argue for deportation, float denaturalization, question whether Islam “belongs” in the West
Legal does not mean responsible.
Allow me to explain something for anyone who needs to hear it.
We don't have hate speech laws in the United States. We don't have blasphemy laws either.
And regardless of whether anyone likes it or not, mass deportation, denaturalization, and Islam's place in the West are all matters of public debate today, and part of our mainstream political discourse, for better or for worse.
As an elected official and an American, have an absolute first amendment right to speak on these matters of public policy in any way I see fit. Period.
No government body has the right to regulate the political speech of an elected official or anyone else. The Council ethics committee does not exist to regulate or sanction the political speech of Council Members, and has never done so to the best of my knowledge.
We have seen Council Members attend and get arrested at protests. Just last week a Council Member called the President of the United States a 'pedophile' in chambers during a session, on the record.
You may not like what I say, and I may not like what you say, but this is America and that's how it works.
And I will NOT have my constitutional rights violated under ANY circumstances. Take that to the bank.
To quote directly from Democrat Senator Mark Kelly's pending lawsuit against the Trump Administration:
"The First Amendment forbids the government and its officials from punishing disfavored expression or retaliating against protected speech... That prohibition applies with particular force to legislators speaking on matters of public policy."
I strongly urge anyone involved with any misguided attempt to violate my first amendment rights to reconsider immediately.
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Calling Muslim sanitation workers praying during a snowstorm “Islamic conquest” isn’t leadership.
Religious freedom is constitutional. Muslim New Yorkers plow our streets, save lives, teach our kids, and keep this city running.
Fear is not governance.
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The “replacement” narrative isn’t new. It’s the same conspiracy theory that has fueled hate crimes, mosque vandalism, and violence across this country.
When elected officials amplify it, they legitimize it. That has consequences.
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