The Stringer campaign has tried all the old attack moves: adding details not included in Ms. Kim's brief account in an attempt to discredit her, trotting out his spouse who claims he's a good guy, attempting to show that she's affiliated with Andrew Yang (she's not).

What's disturbing is that there's no apparent awareness from the Stringer campaign that these moves—part of the strategy academics call #DARVO— serve to illustrate how willing his campaign is to attack Ms. Kim.

We should not attack survivors. Period.

An attitude that prioritizes career goals over women and other oppressed peoples' emotional experiences is the problem that leads to sexual harassment and assault, hostile environments, and perpetuated inequity in the workplace and on campaigns.

This rush to attack betrays a lack of self-reflection on Stringer's campaign's part about what it means to be running as a white male candidate.

There need to be real, nuanced conversations about privilege and power in any progressive campaign to avoid perpetuating inequity.

Real, progressive leadership in structurally unequal cities like NYC includes acknowledgement of painful realities about our complicity in inequities.

That should include recognition of our ethical obligation to use our power to protect vulnerable people, even when we disagree.

Progressive politics is not just a set of talking points. It's a set of values and actions: a culture we can share. That's why I support @Dianne4NYC. She's offering us the culture of dignity, solidarity and care for each other which we need to recover from the pandemic.