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(3,659 posts)I took it to mean Progressives or Democratic Socialists. Bernie, AOC, and yes, Mamdani. 
These 3 are far from victim mentaility. They do stand up for people thay are seeing as victimized, but they don't focus on themselves.
Mamdani is the brightest, happiest, most confident and articulate politician I've seen since Obama, and RFK before him. He joined a hunger strike to help taxi drivers, a group he saw as victims who were reclaiming their power. RFK risked his life to speak the night MLK died, and quelled a riot in Indianapolis (Perhaps a little victim mentality would have saved his life). Obama made criticism of his Pastor into his greatest speech.
If you are talking about the people who made the chants you cited, that's another thing. That is the blind rage of a people who have actually been victimized. A far cry from the White male Republicans who think they have it hard because their privelege is threatened.
The Muslim/Palestinian community abandoning Kamala was irrational and maddening. But that's what rage will do.
The peolpe I consider far left, who are motivated by more than one issue, Bernie and AOC for example, condemned aiding Netanyahu while continuing to support Harris/Walz.
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