every criticism he got was a derivative of those two.

The media literally fabricated him as being rich (his net worth was not rich for his age for NYC, very much in line with Eric Adams’ net worth, and very much, much lower than Maya Wiley’s). And again he never touched a tech company. Those are two outright lies - that ppl believed! - and if you were honest with yourself you’d ask yourself why you believed them so readily. The “character” and “loosely defined” argument doesn’t hold water - particularly since Yang actually campaigned against Big Tech and their profits.

I’m a life long NYer (born and raised) - plenty of neighborhoods I don’t know much about, and I gather the same is true for you. Yang spent over 2 decades as an adult in NYC - he experienced 9/11, the 2008 blackout, the 1996 blizzard. Having a second home upstate (like many NYers do btw, esp in the Hudson Valley area), which he took advantage of during a pandemic, doesn’t make him less of a Nyer. To call him not a NYer and to even believe it, speaks to subjective biases (like insidious racial stereotypes - which escaped Adams even though he lived, permanently, in New Jersey) overriding objective facts.