Did you all know that Ilhan Omar, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and Rashida Tlaib are being “silenced”? And that it’s because of their skin color? No? Well, lucky for you, Vox editor Nisha Chittal wrote a whole post to enlighten you:
I wrote about @AOC, @IlhanMN, @RashidaTlaib, and Congress's problem with silencing women of color. https://t.co/L9mLdhNUnk
— Nisha Chittal (@NishaChittal) April 8, 2019
Studies show that women of color at work are often stereotyped, marginalized, and silenced. That only gets worse in Congress, which is mostly dominated by white men. Is it any surprise that AOC, Omar, and Tlaib have been met with so much backlash? https://t.co/ARxq6YewZn
— Nisha Chittal (@NishaChittal) April 8, 2019
The whole piece is hot garbage, but here’s a taste:
Omar, Tlaib, and Ocasio-Cortez’s stances are certainly worth debating on ideological grounds. And were they white men making the same comments, perhaps they would be. But that’s not always what’s happening.
Instead, these three outspoken women have become the public faces of the shift toward a more diverse Congress and have become a locus for the same patterns of biased behavior that researchers and experts have found women of color in leadership often encounter.
As a result, they have been met with aggressive and extensive calls to shut up and go away.
Chittal has no interest in debating their stances on ideological grounds. In fact, she goes out of her way to avoid it, instead blaming racism and sexism for the criticism Omar, Tlaib, and AOC face.
According to Vox, it is a proven objective fact that attacks on Ilhan Omar are "explicitly about silencing outspoken women of color." https://t.co/9dt6Ezpclh pic.twitter.com/M0fF6iOFTO
— Alex Griswold (@HashtagGriswold) April 9, 2019
@NishaChittal help me out here, exactly who has been *explicit* that they are attacking Omar because they want to silence a woman of color?
— Alex Griswold (@HashtagGriswold) April 9, 2019
Nobody. But narratives aren’t gonna craft themselves.
Nah, that’s not it. Not it at all.
— Carla Burlando (@CarlaBurlando) April 9, 2019
Silence pic.twitter.com/9mvhq1HdZa
— dudefromaplace (@jon38218117) April 9, 2019
I don’t think you know what silenced means
— Tall Night King (@tallYuppieScum) April 9, 2019
These are three examples of women who have been ANYTHING BUT SILENCED. https://t.co/i2hSE4QGn4
— Pradheep J. Shanker (@Neoavatara) April 9, 2019
These women voices are anything but silent given that they dominate the news. Nisha, stop!
— Jon Snow’s Man Bun (@jonsnowsmanbun) April 9, 2019
For women who have been silenced, we sure hear from them an awful lot.
— James Grove (@RaeGunns1775) April 9, 2019
How are they being silenced? Their every utterance is reported. They are on magazine covers.
— Adam Klein (@stellamydog) April 9, 2019
Silencing them?? Oh that’s rich. You’d have to live under a rock with no Internet or cable to believe that.
— Lori Latimer (@lorilatimer) April 9, 2019
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