Ocasio-Cortez outrages Republicans by refusing to respect their ignorance
Source: The Guardian
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Ocasio-Cortez outrages Republicans by refusing to respect their ignorance
The young congresswoman has turned the tables on the Wall Street Journal after it accused her of taking ‘pride in ignorance’
Arwa Mahdawi
Sat 2 Mar 2019 14.00 GMT Last modified on Sat 2 Mar 2019 14.35 GMT
AOC is ignorant, ungrateful and coming for your meat
Large swaths of America appear to be suffering from a debilitating condition known as Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Derangement Syndrome (AOCDS). Symptoms include bouts of extreme condescension, an inability to stop sputtering the word “socialist”, and overwhelming anger that a young woman of colour is unapologetically succeeding.
The latest conservative to succumb to AOCDS is Grace-Marie Turner, the president of a non-profit devoted to “counter[ing] the march towards toward government-controlled medicine”. (Can we just pause for a moment and contemplate what sort of person spends their life trying to ensure there will never be affordable healthcare in the United States?)
On Tuesday Turner ranted in the Wall Street Journal that Ocasio-Cortez “has little regard for the system that made it possible for her to be elected to Congress”. Turner also lamented that the congresswoman “leads a generation of young people to take pride in their ignorance – of the laws of nature, of history, of the Constitution, of the eternal battle for freedom – and still succeed”.
As you can imagine, the congresswoman had a few words to say in response to this, tweeting on Thursday that: “I guess WSJ Editorial Page takes pride in their ignorance of our nation’s history of slavery, Jim Crow, & mass incarceration; willful doubt on the decades of science on climate change; targeting of indigenous peoples, and the classist, punitive agenda targeting working families.”
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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/mar/02/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-republicans-ignorance
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