The DSA has seen the enemy, and it is them

Pity the poor Democratic Socialists of America, a “multiracial working class” movement that keeps stumbling over the embarrassing fact that its members are mostly white folks with university degrees and office jobs.New York City’s DSA chapter, per its own survey, is about 60% white and 9% black, vs.a city population that’s 31% white and 20% black — and so will vote Saturday on a resolution to create an “Anti-Oppression Task Force” to “dismantle oppressive systems and combat oppressive practices in the chapter.”That is (by the same logic they apply to every other institution), it must be internal DSA mechanisms that somehow keep nonwhite, working-class socialists down and out.They have seen the enemy, and it is them.But maybe not in the way they want to admit: Notice how the task force will also seek to “construct an equitable culture that advances our goals of organizing the multiracial, multigendered working class.”Multigendered? Sorry, that’s way more of a college-kid than working-class thing — and insisting otherwise is a giveaway that this bunch is really the Deluded Socialists of America.Indeed, 80% of DSA members nationwide hold college degrees, more than double the U.S.

average; nearly a third make at least $100,000 a year — more than most Republicans.Subscribe to our daily Post Opinion newsletter! Please provide a valid email.

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They’re a pack of privileged pups who’d fit right in at the Masters Tournament at Augusta National Golf Club ..

.except for the nose rings, chopped hairdos and other signifiers of earnest alienation.Even the nonwhites and non-Anglos have hidden elite pedigrees: Rep.-elect Darializa Avila Chevalier has been a Columbia University student since 2012; DSA-NYC co-chair Gustavo Gordillo earned a sculpture degree at Yale, then dropped out of an electrical-worker-u...