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Ocasio-Cortez: 'Weird American Dream mythology' requires 'painful' changes for poor whites
Washington Times ^ | Feb 1, 2019 | By Douglas Ernst

Posted on 02/01/2019 10:18:45 AM PST by Jim Robinson

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez says the nation’s “weird American Dream mythology” needs to change — particularly in the minds of “cisgendered” and poor white citizens.

The rising Democratic Party lawmaker from New York told the Intercept’s “Deconstructed” podcast this week that poor white people need to accept that they “benefit” from their skin color, and more so if they identify as their birth sex.

“I find the solutions for white communities to be very painful because it’s very painful for a community to understand and have to go through this — like, you can be — the idea that you can be poor and benefit from the color of your skin does not compute for a lot of people,” she said Monday. “And going through that realization is very painful or even just economically for people that were born with silver spoons. It’s very painful to admit that you had advantages.”

The lawmaker then pivoted to gender politics and the “really hard” decision for Americans to admit “some privilege … of some type.” “I’m a cisgendered woman,” she said. “I will never know the trauma of feeling like I’m not born in the right body. And that is a privilege that I have, no matter how poor my family was when I was born...

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: New York; US: Vermont
KEYWORDS: americandreammyth; berniesanders; cisgendered; dnctalkingpoint; dnctalkingpoints; genderdysphoria; homosexualagenda; mediawingofthednc; newyork; ocasiocortez; partisanmediashills; poorwhites; presstitutes; smearmachine; vermont; whiteprivilege; whitey; whiteysfault
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To: BBQToadRibs
Stop the bus. I’d like to get off, please.

I keep pulling the cord, but the bus doesn't stop.

41 posted on 02/01/2019 10:34:53 AM PST by Steely Tom ([Seth Rich] == [the Democrat's John Dean])
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To: Jim Robinson

Why is it always about race and color with the Libs?


42 posted on 02/01/2019 10:34:59 AM PST by FatherofFive (Islam is EVIL and needs to be eradicated)
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To: rey

Depends on how far we want to be pushed.


43 posted on 02/01/2019 10:35:24 AM PST by Destroyer Sailor (Revenge is a dish best served cold.)
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To: KC_Lion

Ping.


44 posted on 02/01/2019 10:35:26 AM PST by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: Jim Robinson

Obama “They get bitter, they cling to guns or religion...”

AOC: Hold my beer.


45 posted on 02/01/2019 10:35:36 AM PST by C19fan
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To: Jim Robinson

It’s almost like someone has infiltrated the left in order to discredit them and make them a mockery this woman is so far over the top.


46 posted on 02/01/2019 10:35:50 AM PST by Califreak (If Obama had been treated like Trump the US would have been burnt down before Inauguration Day)
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To: SaveFerris

...and to think those who voted for her are probably more stupid than she is. Thanks ny voters. We are completely sure you are losers.


47 posted on 02/01/2019 10:35:54 AM PST by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: Jim Robinson

She’s like, ummm a complete brainless idiot, y’know.....ummmm....


48 posted on 02/01/2019 10:36:19 AM PST by FLT-bird
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To: Jim Robinson

Idiot racist moron needs to be removed from Congress


49 posted on 02/01/2019 10:36:29 AM PST by Okeydoker
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To: Lurkinanloomin

“I’m a cisgendered woman,” she said. “I will never know the trauma of feeling like I’m not born in the right body. And that is a privilege that I have,
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Now we’re supposed to feel guilty for not being delusional?
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Yes. We’re supposed to feel guilty about everything that’s normal about us. I’m feeling so guilty about having great hair and teeth.


50 posted on 02/01/2019 10:36:55 AM PST by LydiaLong
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To: FatherofFive

That is all they got.


51 posted on 02/01/2019 10:37:24 AM PST by Destroyer Sailor (Revenge is a dish best served cold.)
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To: FLT-bird

She “learned” all this crap in college and heew and haws to regurgitate it.


52 posted on 02/01/2019 10:37:25 AM PST by C19fan
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To: Harpotoo

She’s just a poor coal miner’s daughter.


53 posted on 02/01/2019 10:37:30 AM PST by LydiaLong
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To: Army Air Corps
[the more convinced I am that she is a total airhead]

No way man!! Here's her shining Democrat leadership!!


54 posted on 02/01/2019 10:37:30 AM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: Jim Robinson
She is so insane she appears to be inspiring group of Dems to overthrow her.

When the Dems think you're nuts, you're one comment away from an ambulance pickup.

55 posted on 02/01/2019 10:38:05 AM PST by CaptainK ('No collusion, no obstruction, he's a leaker')
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To: Jim Robinson

Just another way to describe us Irredeemable Deplorable types.


56 posted on 02/01/2019 10:38:17 AM PST by Kickass Conservative (THEY LIVE, and we're the only ones wearing the Sunglasses.)
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To: Jim Robinson

She doesn’t have much privilege when it comes to brain cells.


57 posted on 02/01/2019 10:38:43 AM PST by LydiaLong
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To: deport

All these new “prefixes” the loony left has come up with are frustrating...

The natural fact is XX is a girl, XY is a boy...PERIOD...


58 posted on 02/01/2019 10:38:46 AM PST by JBW1949 (I'm really PC....PATRIOTICALLY CORRECT!!!!)
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To: All

“...The natural fact is XX is a girl, XY is a boy...PERIOD...”

It don’t matter at all what a person “thinks” they are....


59 posted on 02/01/2019 10:40:01 AM PST by JBW1949 (I'm really PC....PATRIOTICALLY CORRECT!!!!)
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To: Jim Robinson

What bothers me most is that she is continually being described as the/a rising star by the crap media.

This constant bombardment about her is the same thing the msm did to elect the 0panzy. She is real bad news.


60 posted on 02/01/2019 10:40:51 AM PST by redshawk (0pansy is a Liar and Hates.........he just hates!)
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