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Zohran Mamdani and his family are people with no real grounding in any culture and place. They’ve ricocheted around the globe, in India, Africa, the United States, Dubai, the UK. In the vacuum of insecurity created by the lack of grounding, a narcissistic defense has arisen — “Palestine is at the center of my identity.” A place they have zero ties or belonging to, and zero knowledge of. Zohran’s cultural displays are performative, but read as ignorant. He claims ancestry from Gujarat, but has possibly never even been there. If he had, why did he lie and say there were no Muslims left in Gujarat?? There are more than 6 million Muslims in Gujarat and they are plainly visible from the road. Zohran eats rice with his hands, but sloppily, not in the artful way Indians do, where they cup with fingertips and form rice into a ball. He lied that he was African American on a college application, because he lived in Uganda. He uses culture as a prop. His real identity is Third Worldist. Vacuous political sloganeering, based on Soviet propaganda engineered by the KGB to destabilize Western nations, is the only thing he knows.