SF bizarre Identity Logic

This was posted before, and it has truly bothered me. I can now put my finger on it. First I'll give a comical reduction of the arguments and then follow with the full text.

Reduction:

Supervisor: You're about to do something you said doesn't work

Mayor: White people shouldn't tell black people how to treat black and brown people

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Full text:

Supervisor: "Will you follow your own Department of Public Health's advice and end punitive policies specifically incarcerating and arresting drug users?" Preston asked. "Or will you ramp up these strategies… causing even more overdose deaths?"

Mayor: "Here we go. Another white man addressing Black and brown people as though you're the savior of those people and you speak for them." 

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I strongly believe more and better action is needed to deal with the issues they are discussing, this isn't about that. This is about the mayor giving a laughable argument and get away with it since, I assume, it doesn't seem laughable to others.

goodbye identity politics hello identity logic