Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez either has the memory of a goldfish, or she’s just willfully hypocritical whenever she can manage it. Or both, I guess.
IN any case, here she is blaming Jeanine Pirro’s criticism of Ilhan Omar for the death threats that have been made against her:
Understand when Jeanine Pirro goes on Fox + rallies people to think hijabs are threatening, it leads to this.
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) April 7, 2019
Folks who imply we’re “bad” for politics, the party, the country, etc. have no idea the threats we deal w/ because of that kind of language.
Talk policy, not personal. https://t.co/udFg3LMdgB
Now, don’t pay attention to the fact that it was Ocasio-Cortez who has been accusing all Trump supporters of racism and white supremacy and anything else she can think of. So isn’t that a tad bit hypocritical? The answer is yes.
To be fair, Pirro’s comments were irresponsible. Especially when there are Sikhs who also wear similar head covering and have nothing to do with Islam.
Here’s the death threat she was talking about:
Ocasio-Cortez was responding to the arrest of a man in New York who is accused of making death threats against Omar.
Prosecutors have said Patrick Carlineo’s arrest stems from a phone call he made last month to Omar’s office.
“Do you work for the Muslim Brotherhood? Why are you working for her? She’s a f—ing terrorist. I’ll put a bullet in her f—ing skull,” Carlineo allegedly said during the call.
I don’t have a problem with her criticizing the more extreme or irrational attacks on Omar, because there are some. But she doesn’t distinguish between those and reasonable criticism. So what that means is that she just wants all debate shut down. She doesn’t want to hear dissent from her position. And that is what we call totalitarianism, people.