The Kansas City Star Editorial:

[George II]

https://www.kansascity.com/opinion/

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez owes Kansas Rep. Sharice Davids an apology for staffer’s tweet

U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s chief of staff sucker punched U.S. Rep. Sharice Davids of Kansas with an indefensible tweet saying she casts votes that “enable a racist system.”

Saikat Chakrabarti’s Twitter attack rightly has prompted a storm of criticism from other Democrats. Many stated the obvious: Even hinting that Davids is racist, or enables racism, is offensive and shockingly misguided.

Ocasio-Cortez, a fellow Democrat who is from New York, should publicly apologize for her staffer’s tweet, and Chakrabarti should consider another line of work.

The controversy began in late June, after Davids voted for a bill designed to provide emergency relief on the southern border. While the measure drew bipartisan support, several dozen liberal House Democrats thought it lacked needed additional protections for immigrant children.

One of those liberals was Ocasio-Cortez. In a tweet after the vote, her chief of staff compared the moderates who voted for the bill to “old southern Democrats of the 40s,” a clear reference to segregationists.

Did that include Davids? “I don’t believe Sharice is a racist person,” Chakrabarti tweeted in response later that evening. “But her votes are showing her to enable a racist system.”

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For the record, The Kansas City Star is considered "left of center".



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[elleng]

1. Seems to me Saikat Chakrabarti

owes the apology.

[George II]

2. Either one. A sincere apology is owed, not just one of those "if I have offended" apologies.

[Cha]

3. K&R! Good on the Kansas City Star

standing up for Sharice Davids!

Thank You, George

[brush]

4. That tweet out of AOC's office by her COS led to the public quarrel with Nancy Pelosi...

who asked for no more tweets publicly criticizing other Dems, which led to AOC insinuating that the Speaker was racist (she quickly walked it back but no before it became public), now the whole thing of "the squad" seeming to square off with the Speaker, a member of their own party, has now mestastacized into trump trying to take advantage of the public riff of Democrats by going after the so-called "squad" as unAmericans from shithole countries who need to go back to them.

What a mess. The moral of the story being, don't publicly tweet to the world your beefs with other Dems. Go down to their office and talk it out. And that includes your foolish chief of staff.

[denbot]

5. You always bash progressives.

And seemingly have a tendency to promote infighting here on DU. But hey, at least you’re consistent.

[George II]

6. I support Democrats. I have been doing so for about 45 years.

[denbot]

7. Yeah, sure.