AOC denounces anyone engaging in online vitriol after Trump’s victory — Democrats included

https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/reidout-blog/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-aoc-democrats-infighting-rcna179622

25 comments

  1. Perfect. Coddle Republicans when they are mad. Scold Democrats when they are mad

  2. Headline is very misleading IMO. Here’s the relevant direct quote from AOC:

    >*It’s interesting that we are in a cultural moment where, on the left and the right and the center, there’s just a certain cache and reward to being an a–hole. And yeah, we’ve seen it on the right — we also see it on the left. And I actually think that we need to be paying more attention to how a person is, because a lot of people use righteous or popular causes as an excuse or a smokescreen to let out their worst impulses or the ways that they wish they could treat people. And I think we need to pay a lot more attention to that in terms of deciding how to trust and who to trust as we move forward. I think it’s a really big deal.*

    To my reading, she’s saying that there are examples of people of all political alignments who use controversy to treat people poorly. The headline makes it sound like she denounced everyone who’s angry online, which is just not true.

  3. yea good luck on trying to calm down the spite and division after the incoming administration runs a fucking train on us for the next 5 decades lol

  4. AOC is one of the few Democrats worth listening to these days.

  5. The first thing we need to do is stop forming our opinions based on the headline and base it on the actual content. Read the entire thing people.

  6. We are in the final stage of letting the stupid kids who told the smart kids “you think you’re better than me?” take everything from us. Fawning will get us nowhere, AOC. As much as we’d like to believe it would. Why are we acting like we are stuck in an abusive relationship? These people should be corrected and shamed.

  7. Headlines very obvious Media manipulation from NBC. That’s NOT what she actually said

  8. When Democracy is at stake, no holds barred. COPE. Ya’ll voted for a monster, don’t cry about your feelings.

  11. “The Land of Milk and Honey”…the land of hate and money

  12. For months now all we’ve heard is that a Trump victory would lead to the rise of fascism and the end of democracy in the US. If all that’s true, I don’t understand why Democrats are now asking us to remain calm and engage in polite discourse with MAGA after their victory.

    What’s the point of the Democratic Party if they can’t hold firm with any convictions whatsoever? MAGA believes in a lot of terrible things, but at least they believe in *anything at all.* Do the Democrats have any fight left in them? Or was all their talk about the fate of democracy just empty words?

  13. She knows the hatred here and elsewhere put him in the oval. Shit

  14. The “we should take the high road” democrats are the reason why we are in the situation that we are in!

  15. Is there a coherent explanation for the double standard where Republicans can be the absolute biggest asshole trolls on the internet, but if a single liberal downvotes someone’s comment on Reddit, it’s justification to burn down the DNC?

  16. I’m just tired of being nice… it’s gotten us nowhere

  19. Fuck that. The high road clearly doesn’t exist and I won’t be pleasant to anyone who considers me subhuman. The fucking paradox of tolerance is an ouroboros and the snake is about full of itself.

  20. Lazy Dems don’t get to say shit.

    Dems who did vote can only turn their pissed-off-ed-ness to the lazy Dems who let everyone down.

  21. One thing I and the Dems don’t need to do is soul searching. I sleep fine voting for who I voted for. What I have lost is faith in is America to not choose a racist, bigot and fascist. Winning doesn’t make you right.

  22. Democrats have been taking the high road for more than 50 years and look at how it has worked out so far….

  23. I have been calling Trump a Nazi because he is one, and I see that his fans really hate that. I had one tell me today that he is a patriot. I reminded him that German Nazis believed they were patriots also.

  24. When my wife is harassed by a post office worker for not being the right color and told “they should all go back where they came from”, how the fuck am I supposed to respond? With flowers?

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