I don’t think the infamous AOC is having a very good week.
Or month.
First we had farting cows and a “New Green Deal” that would cost an estimated $93 trillion to implement (more money than exists in the world, by the way) ⬇️
Now she's getting racial, supporting another member of Congress who has recently been called out for several racist and bigoted Tweets.
Here's what the AOC Tweeted that has people upset:
The Daily Wire explains more:
Socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez faced backlash this week after she came to the defense of fellow far-left Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) on Twitter following racial remarks that Tlaib made during a House Oversight Committee hearing.
Tlaib falsely suggested that Rep. Mark Meadows (R-NC) was a racist this week when Meadows brought Trump official Lynne Patton to Michael Cohen's hearing.
"Just because someone has a person of color, a black person, working for them does not mean they aren’t racist and … the fact someone would actually use a prop, a black woman in this chamber, in this committee is alone racist in itself," Tlaib said as she took aim at Meadows.
Ocasio-Cortez responded by tweeting: "Total bravery from @RashidaTlaib as she reminds the nation that tokenism *is* racism."
The response online was not kind to AOC, with one person saying it was an "Ugly racist Tweet" from her.
Take a look:
Lynne Patton was the subject of these Tweets and the so-called "token" and she took to Instagram to set the record straight:
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