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CORTEZ GIVES TWITTER A LESSON ON 'CODE SWITCHING' AFTER CONSERVATIVES CRITICIZE HER ACCENT
Newsweak ^ | 4/07/19 | GILLIAN EDEVANE

Posted on 04/08/2019 1:48:40 PM PDT by Libloather

New York Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez continued to defend herself against claims promoted by Donald Trump, Jr. and others that she changes her accent to pander to minority audiences.

In a string of Saturday evening tweets, the first-term Democrat wrote that her habit of "code-switching" was informed by years of navigating professional and social environments as a woman of color.

"Next time you‘re told straight hair is 'unprofessional' and that speaking like your parents do is 'uneducated,' then you can complain about code-switching," she wrote, referring to the practice of changing speech patterns based on environment. "Code-switching is a tool communities learn when they’re told their voice, appearance and mannerisms are “unprofessional.”

**SNIP**

Her Saturday remarks came after commentators accused her of adopting a southern-like drawl while speaking at Rev. Al Sharpton’s National Action Network convention in New York on Friday.

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


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To: Sirius Lee

LOL - I am waiting for the meme of AOC in blackface


41 posted on 04/08/2019 2:42:05 PM PDT by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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To: Libloather

She never accepts responsibility for anything. Typical millennial.


42 posted on 04/08/2019 2:46:49 PM PDT by Stravinsky
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To: Fiddlstix

btt


43 posted on 04/08/2019 2:47:58 PM PDT by KSCITYBOY (The media is corrupt)
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To: RightGeek
It's a start, but needs more work


44 posted on 04/08/2019 2:51:46 PM PDT by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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To: scrabblehack

Is she suggesting that her unpaid New York State tax bill was a consequence of her inability to navigate that “professional environment” correctly as a “woman of color?”


45 posted on 04/08/2019 2:51:49 PM PDT by Alberta's Child ("In the time of chimpanzees I was a monkey.")
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To: Libloather

Code switching? Hot damn! That means our ebonics friday thing is back on at the office again!!!


46 posted on 04/08/2019 2:58:53 PM PDT by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ....)
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To: Libloather

AOC knows you “Gotta fake it until you make it”


47 posted on 04/08/2019 3:01:26 PM PDT by dennisw
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To: Go Gordon

Good catch, Gordon! The Irish vote... Would like to see her try an Irish accent.

She probably got lots of practice being Ted Kennedy’s intern.

I heard she took swimming lessons before taking that job.


48 posted on 04/08/2019 3:02:56 PM PDT by poconopundit
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To: TonytheTiger7777

“...and take the blame for Spanish Conquistadorism”

AOC is 70% Spanish and the rest mixed Indian (Taino?) and black. My guess at least. She should get on Henry Louis Gates show and get her DNA analyzed and her ancestors named.


49 posted on 04/08/2019 3:06:13 PM PDT by dennisw
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To: Libloather
"Code-switching is a tool communities learn when they’re told their voice, appearance and mannerisms are “unprofessional.”

So you did your code-switching to a low brow accent from your usual high brow accent appear unprofessional to your black audience.

Got it.
Sounds to me like you were being demeaning to them.

50 posted on 04/08/2019 3:13:30 PM PDT by philman_36 (Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty and supped with infamy. Benjamin Franklin)
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To: Libloather

51 posted on 04/08/2019 3:19:15 PM PDT by CharlesMartelsGhost
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To: scrabblehack

She was the tippy top of tip stealers!


52 posted on 04/08/2019 3:21:26 PM PDT by BTerclinger (MAGA)
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To: Libloather

“Code-switching,” eh? And to think that for centuries, the rest of us, of all races and cultures, called it “play-acting, posing, and LYING.”


53 posted on 04/08/2019 3:29:22 PM PDT by mywholebodyisaweapon (Thank God for President Trump.)
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To: Libloather

“code switching” LMFAO!


54 posted on 04/08/2019 3:30:30 PM PDT by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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To: TBP

The Latina’s in NY accept her even though she is a Yorktown heights bitch who has no relation to the Bronx. Like the color black it doesn’t matter as long as you are there to give out free stuff


55 posted on 04/08/2019 3:44:00 PM PDT by ronnie raygun (nic dip.com)
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To: Libloather

Maybe AOC took lessons from the master Killary?


56 posted on 04/08/2019 3:54:15 PM PDT by upchuck (Home schooled kids are educated, not indoctrinated.)
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To: ronnie raygun

She has far more in common with rich white girls than any minority, black or Hispanic, in the Bronx.


57 posted on 04/08/2019 4:03:07 PM PDT by goodjobtwo
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To: Libloather

Well, both of my parents had multiple advanced degrees, so no one ever accused them of being dumb. You, on the other hand....


58 posted on 04/08/2019 4:04:00 PM PDT by VideoPaul
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To: joelt

“Just let a conservative anglo roll out the “code switching” on some latinos and watch for leftist hysteria.”

What’s wrong with that? Sounds like a strategy to drive leftists insane.


59 posted on 04/08/2019 4:07:29 PM PDT by sergeantdave (Teach a man to fish and he'll steal your gear and sell it)
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To: albertabound

“she is a phoney and very sneaky....she bears close watching...”

For what? More laughs?


60 posted on 04/08/2019 4:09:03 PM PDT by sergeantdave (Teach a man to fish and he'll steal your gear and sell it)
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