Dear Lord, we just did a post on Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez yesterday going on about the correlation between fossil fuel extraction and the abduction and murder of indigenous women. (She also managed to work black women in there as well.) It’s pretty rich that she thinks the First Amendment is to protect yourself from being embarrassed in public. The solution to that, AOC, is to put down the iPhone and just walk away. It’s not even fun anymore to watch you embarrass yourself.
The people who say they shouldn’t ban critical race theory in public schools — and also maintain that critical race theory isn’t being taught in public schools — contend that it’s all about not teaching slavery so you don’t make white students feel uncomfortable, which is about as accurate as calling Florida’s legislation the “Don’t Say Gay” bill.
And speaking of gay, AOC’s on a tear about far-right domestic terrorists banning books about slavery and criminalizing the parents of trans kids.
Imagine living in the US today, where the #1 source of domestic terrorism is far-right groups(per FBI!), books about slavery are getting banned, parents are criminalized for trans kids, yet asserting the 1st amendment is about protecting bigots from feeling embarrassed in public.
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) March 18, 2022
Booo corny tomato tomato tomato 🍅 🍅
I’m on team “embarrassing racists is our first amendment right, not their first amendment violation” thanks
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) March 18, 2022
So many peoples’ lives are actually endangered for their views, yet these 1st amendment screeds only seem to crop up in defense of the historically powerful claiming minority status. Until it shows up for everyone, it’s merely a service for the powerful, not a challenge of it.
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) March 18, 2022
She’s so dumb.
January 7, 2021: Parler became the US's most-downloaded app.
January 8: @AOC demanded Apple & Google use their monopolistic power to remove Parler from its store.
January 9: Google and Apple obeyed. Parler was destroyed.
It's about a little more than "feeling embarrassed." https://t.co/mIVOIvnIBv
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) March 18, 2022
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In 4 tweets, the story of how @AOC and a few of her Dem colleagues abused their majoritarian power in DC to coerce Silicon Valley monopolies to destroy a highly popular app they disliked.
Censorship concerns are about more than "hurt feelings" and mean tweets from random users. pic.twitter.com/9t4lDjgExb
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) March 18, 2022
For those invoking 1/6 to justify this state censorship, 2 points:
1) Note how many episodes now justify censorship (Russiagate, 1/6, COVID, war in Ukraine, etc).
2) Far more 1/6 planning was done on YouTube, yet no Dems wanted to destroy it: they used Google to destroy Parler. pic.twitter.com/UZOWQTIqkc
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) March 18, 2022
Wish she would stop taking the easy way out: pointing fingers and pitting American against American.
— Daniel D. Hicks (@dandhicks) March 18, 2022
Of course she has to throw in “trans kids” just to show that she is progressive and good, even as she attacks free speech.
— SandieSurely00 (@SSurely00) March 18, 2022
AOC is sort of a joke, the leftwing Trump who has been caught more than a few times with her foot in her mouth.
She's just a member of the house, not even that powerful of a position all things considered.
It's okay to just leave her alone because she won't respond to reason.
— Alacrity1313 (@alacrity1313) March 18, 2022
Can we at least call her out for hanging out with the anti-Semites in “The Squad”?
It’s a bigger problem than she’d like to admit, because, as her tweet shows, all she has to do is call you “far-right” and you’re immediately lumped in with domestic terrorists. Not everyone’s “far-right” — some of us are just conservative — but keep doing what you’re doing until the midterms; it worked wonders in Virginia.
Related:
Glenn Greenwald lays out how Justin Trudeau’s actions are part of a broader plan to criminalize and crush dissent https://t.co/euGK0hq1rw
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) February 21, 2022
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