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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Dammit “Touchy, touchy!”
She is a Latina. Castro, Che and Maduro were / are Latinos.
Lighten up, Sandy.
How about a few million digging every shred of dirt on this loon and who put her where she is?
You must be a racist.....
MABA
Make Alexandra Bartend Again
“Cute but stupid”. In a braying jackass sort of way?
Sandy Ocrazio-Cortex. I love it!
um, so how are we supposed to pronounce her name according to her?
Freepers are so good when they go after the idiots like AOC!
MAGA
Make Alexandria Go Away!
4 posted on 3/21/2019, 8:03:08 AM by rdl6989
Sandy Ocasio?
I call her, phonetically, “Alehandria Ocathio Corteth,” but my wife says I’m using the Andalusian pronunciation.
I say, if I can’t use English, why can’t I pick my own version of Spanish?
Well, hell, some places will lock you up for “mis-gendering” someone, so how long will it be before it’s a federal crime to mispronounce a Congresspersons name?
They’re probably working on it as we type.
Where did Alexandria Occasional-Cotex get that idea from?
For someone with a big mouth who wants to be in the limelight 24/7 this bimbo has awfully thin skin.
She can dish it out, but she can’t take it.
Toughen up or shut up, buttercup.
Ol’ Crazy Cortez.
Her name will always be Ocassional Cortex to me...
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.
f she was true to herself and what she espouses, she would get rid of the Cortez in her name. Hernan Cortez killed thousands of indigenous people when he invaded what is now Mexico. He oppressed the brown skinned people.
She’s “Alex from the Block.”
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