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| Well-Off Millennials Are All Julia Salazar. I Wish We Weren't. |
| 2018-09-18 |
| h/t instapundit Maybe this is part of why Julia Salazar’s much-reported embellishments of her own background didn’t torpedo her campaign for State Senate in Brooklyn. Even articles reporting on her win last night led with the controversy over how she’s described her backstory: The New York Post condemned her personal story ‐ a big part of her appeal ‐ as "wildly exaggerated." Salazar has said she immigrated from Colombia when she was, in fact, born in Florida; asserted a "working-class background" that her brother strongly denied, offering photos of the family’s four-bedroom riverfront house; said she went to work at 14 to "make ends meet," which her mother contradicted; implied her mother hadn’t gone to college when her mother got a degree when Salazar was 8 years old; asserted a very confused timeline about her conversion to Judaism; and claimed Jewish ancestry nobody could verify. There’s no interpretation of Salazar’s claims about her life that can escape the conclusion that she presented a selectively edited and lightly fabricated account of her personal history, and Rolling Stone seemed baffled to have to report last night that "the constituents of District 18 were apparently untroubled" by that. But I wonder if the supporters ‐ certainly the young, mostly white, recent college graduates who flooded her victory party ‐ didn’t recognize, at least subconsciously, that this kind of thing is just way more common than we’d like to admit. |
| Posted by:g(r)omgoru |