Mayor Zohran Mamdani has a Cea Weaver problem. Earlier this week, online sleuths uncovered a number of posts from the newly appointed New York City tenant czar’s now-deactivated X account, in which she described homeownership as a form of “white supremacy” and called for the white middle class to be “impoverished.”

Now, UnHerd has found more extremist rhetoric, this time on her still-active Facebook page, in which she again attacks white Americans, police officers, and the very concept of private ownership.

In a 2017 post, for example, she argued that “moving to a gentrifying neighborhood” is tantamount to “structural racism,” as is “moving to the suburbs,” before adding: “Property is theft.”

Weaver has also defended what she describes on Facebook as “the government’s sacred right to seize property” in a striking echo of her X posts in which she also appears to call for the abolition of not just abusive landlordism, but private property as such.

Anti-police and anti-immigration enforcement are a running theme. In 2018, she called for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to be abolished. Two years later, amid the George Floyd riots, Weaver shared a post describing “Amerikkka” as “apartheid.” The same year, she called for defunding the NYPD.

Weaver has also taken a sharply racialised view of Donald Trump’s rise. In the immediate wake of his first election, she wrote: “white people, white people, and corporate fucking Dems (who are also white people).” In another post in the aftermath of the first Trump election, she quoted a writer with the website Very Smart Brothers to the effect that: “The idea that white people are so possessed with clutching and cultivating and elevating White supremacy that they will endanger and outright sacrifice their own fucking lives, is all I think about.”

UnHerd reached out to Weaver via Facebook requesting comment, but she didn’t reply by deadline. But important figures in the industry she now regulates are alarmed. One Manhattan landlord, whose portfolio is mostly made up of rent-stabilised units, told UnHerd: “It doesn’t surprise me as an owner that people are upset with the high cost of rent. Nobody likes to see rent increases. But if I have to have this conversation with someone who sees homeownership as a tool of white supremacy and wants to impoverish the white middle class, I don’t even know where to begin.”

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Sohrab Ahmari is the US editor of UnHerd and the author, most recently, of Tyranny, Inc: How Private Power Crushed American Liberty — and What To Do About It

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