Fannish on Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

[firecat]

"Why Is It Still Controversial to Call Trump a Racist?" by Ryan Bort in Rolling Stone

But for all of her talk about tax rates, universal healthcare and a Green New Deal to combat climate change, Ocasio-Cortez has mostly abstained from taking on the president directly. When Cooper asked her why, she explained that she treats Trump as more of a “symptom of a problem.” Part of this problem, she went on, is racism in America.

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[silveradept]

It certainly shouldn't take a young Representative to say what everyone else knows, but it looks like AOC has been successfully building her capital by being willing to say what everyone else knows and a lot of white folks are in denial about.

Not to mention that asking her about the racism of the President is going to take away from all the other policy positions she has because everyone will be entirely all a-flutter ith their own defenses of how racists are only those people itth torches shouting slogans.

[firecat]

Not to mention that asking her about the racism of the President is going to take away from all the other policy positions she has because everyone will be entirely all a-flutter ith their own defenses of how racists are only those people itth torches shouting slogans.

Yeah, I worry about that. I'm hoping she's a lot smarter than I am when it comes to all that stuff.

[silveradept]

She is. If you haven't listened to her Maddow interview, she hits one out of the park about "border security" and what people are doing in fear, and Rachael wisely gets out of the way and lets her go and demonstrate what the real consequences of Republican ideas about immigration are.

[firecat]

Hope is a nice thing to get re-acquainted with.