You don’t have to like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez or even be to the left of Lindsey Graham to find it disturbing that Fox personalities single her out for sustained personalized bullying.
The Fox News host Tucker Carlson attacked Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Friday night, claiming the US congresswoman was not a woman of colour.
“She’s a rich entitled white lady,” he said.
A “Karen.” It’s interesting how right-wing men and left-wing men join hands to abuse women.
Ocasio-Cortez’s mother is from Puerto Rico, her father from the Bronx. She has described herself as a woman of colour.
From the Bronx? That doesn’t tell us much. Puerto Rico at least hints at Hispanic, though of course it’s possible to be from there without being Hispanic, but the Bronx hints at…what? Could be anything.
Carlson said: “No one ever dares to challenge that description, but every honest person knows it is hilariously absurd.
“There is no place on Earth outside of American colleges and newsrooms where Sandy Cortez” – Carlson’s derisory nickname for the New York congresswoman – “would be recognized as a quote, woman of color, because she’s not!
“She’s a rich entitled white lady. She’s the pampered obnoxious ski bunny in the matching snowsuit who tells you to pull up your mask while you’re standing in the lift line at Jackson Hole. They’re all the same. It doesn’t matter what shade they are.”
As I say – disturbing. It’s not commentary, it’s not politics, it’s certainly not news – it’s just abuse. What’s the point of it other than to gin up hatred?
Maybe it’s the permafrost that’s doing it. Anything to distract us from the realization that the pot is heating up.
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9 responses to “She’s the pampered obnoxious ski bunny”
Being from the Bronx doesn’t mean anything. There are all sorts of ethnicities represented in the Bronx. In fact, Hispanic or Latino is the largest ethnic group. White people make up slightly less than 30%.
These are probably the same hosts who drooled over Ivanka Trump – now there’s a pampered obnoxious ski bunny. And as for telling you to pull up your mask? Pull it up, stupid. There’s a pandemic, and whether you believe in it or not, people are dying.
I mean, asshole has a point… But the same applies to him in spades so…
Why do I suspect Tucker’s speaking from experience here?
And in the context of 21st C. US, AOC is a person of color.
The same school of thought that says that Black people can really be White, that “whitewashes” Black feminists who oppose trans activism that erases the boundaries of women? Right-wing men and left-wing men joining together indeed. Who knew Tucker Carlson would be angling for woke cookies?
Her mother is from Puerto Rico, and her father was from the Bronx. But he was Puerto Rican too.
Tuckyo Rose is just throwing shit at the wall to see what sticks. This won’t, because it’s utterly absurd.
How many years do you have to be from the Bronx before you stop being Puerto Rican?
I suppose this is another example of the familiar issue of generations and assimilation and all that. How Puerto Rican are you if you were born
hereon the mainland and talk with a US accent? Do you have to consult Tucker Carlson before you decide? (Of course you do.)This remains my favorite take on the right-wing obsession with AOC https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/03/15/republicans-really-hate-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-theres-lesson-there/
It is from 3(!) years ago, and still dead-on. Pull quote
On Fox News, AOC exists in a state of quantum indeterminacy. She is simultaneously a rich elitist, yet also “just a broke dumb bartender” when they want to attack her for that.
Schrodinger’s AOC?