The same people who support a system where someone gets extra admissions points based on race (bc of the idea that certain races are disadvantaged based on history) are now justifying someone who came from wealth, wasn’t limited by that history, and explicitly is not of that race, trying to game the system by claiming otherwise.
They want to pretend that Mamdani is so dumb that he didn’t understand the difference between race and place of birth, which is why he had to select the racial option that would give him a major edge in admissions.