{"id":22268,"date":"2026-05-11T03:00:44","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T03:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=22268"},"modified":"2026-05-11T03:00:45","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T03:00:45","slug":"thats-not-language-that-i-use-why-mamdanis-non-answer-is-worse-than-a-dog-whistle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=22268","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;That&#8217;s not language that I use&#8221; \u2013 Why Mamdani&#8217;s Non-Answer Is Worse Than a Dog Whistle"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Mamdani should know what&#8217;s wrong with globalizing the intifada. But he won&#8217;t disavow it or condemn it; he just says it&#8217;s not the language that he uses.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"&quot;That&#039;s not language that I use&quot; \u2013 Why Mamdani&#039;s Non-Answer Is Worse Than a Dog Whistle\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LnNJ9aT0Gp0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mamdani should know what&#8217;s wrong with globalizing the intifada. But he won&#8217;t disavow it or condemn it; he just says it&#8217;s not the language that he uses. <\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=LnNJ9aT0Gp0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[1302,1301,1994,1047,1111,194,1585,2297,391,2040,84,389,57,108,115],"class_list":["post-22268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-gaza","tag-hamas","tag-intifada","tag-islam","tag-islamism","tag-israel","tag-jews","tag-mamdani","tag-middle-east","tag-muslim-brotherhood","tag-muslims","tag-palestine","tag-religion","tag-terrorism","tag-terrorists"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22268"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22269,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22268\/revisions\/22269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}