Posted on 03/21/2019 7:59:05 AM PDT by COUNTrecount
What’s in a name? Everything for Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
The New York Democrat blasted Fox News host Laura Ingraham and her guest for mocking how she pronounced her name and saying she does so because it’s a “Latina thing.”
“If by ‘the Latina thing,’ she means I actually do the work instead of just talk about it, then yeah, I’m doing ‘the Latina thing,’” she wrote on her Twitter page late Wednesday. “Unless of course she‘s talking about being multilingual, which we know isn’t a ‘Latina thing.’ It’s a ‘21st century’ thing.”
Ocasio-Cortez also said that Fox News’ hosts incorrectly pronounce her name as “Cortez,” because that sounds “more ‘stereotypically’ Hispanic + probably incites more ‘anxiety’ for them.”
“Pro Tip: My last name is not ‘Cortez,’ just as theirs isn’t ‘Ingra’ or ‘Carl’ or ‘Hann,'” she said, referring to Tucker Carlson and Sean Hannity.
Ingraham, on her Fox News show “The Ingraham Angle” on Tuesday, asked guest Joe diGenova if he had noticed how when Ocasio-Cortez pronounces her name “does she take on that Obama, Obama put on accents?”
“She does the Latina thing where she does her, you know, ‘Anastasio Ocasio-Cortez,'” said diGenova, a conservative lawyer, exaggerating the pronunciation.
Ingraham went on to call Ocasio-Cortez the “It Girl, and I mean girl in a very mature way.”
Ocasio-Cortez continued to school the two on the correct use of her name.
“My last name is Ocasio-Cortez. Full stop. That’s my name. No, you can’t say ‘Cortez.’ I’ve never used that in my life,” she said. “‘Cortez’ is referring to someone else. Even if they‘re trying to be rude + wrong, my dad’s last name was Ocasio anyway. (His name was hyphenated too, though.)”
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Zack lee! Now it’s ‘beneficial’ whereas maybe not so much over in Dorktown high. Probably tried to pretend she was Irish with the ‘o’casio’ thing. Like mexican beat-OH o’dork
Get over yourself, you drooling moron...
MAGA
Make Alexandria Go Away!
I prefer “Al the Bartender”
AOC, I just call you Vacant-Retard.
How does she feel about “Occasional-Kotex”?
hurricane sandy hit the bronx too
Occasional-Cortex
I just call her Cortez or AOC.
She can deal with it however she sees fit.
I just call her Cortez or AOC.
She can deal with it however she sees fit.
I s’pose I could call her Alex. I work with an Alexandria. We just call her Alex. It’s an American thing...
Like Samantha C*** and MoFo Tlaib, I will honor her objection and refer to this piece of Obama as “Latin Thing”.
Cute but stupid. She has cashed in big time on the “latina” designation. I object to any and all race-based privileges.
I wonder what she thinks of *Occasional Cortex*?
Wow, good for her, AOC's a know-nothing in two languages.
She has as many latino characteristics as my nephews and nieces do Italian ones.
It disappears over generations and though it makes me a little sad, it’s as it should be.
She’s a fraud.
Oooohhhh! Touch, touch! Love it. Call her “Cortez” all the time from now on.
Or maybe soon it will become “Crooked Cortez”
Another one of the democrats finest doomed.
The obvious thing to do is refer to her as Cortez and not hyphenate. If that is eating her lunch, keep doing it.
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