Posted on 06/24/2019 5:57:34 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) claimed it was Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) not herself who appropriated vernacular associated with the Holocaust in her criticism of the self-avowed Democratic socialists comparison of U.S. border facilities to concentration camps.
Reminder: the member who directly + explicitly compared concentration camps on our border to the Holocaust was *Liz Cheney.* The horrors of the Holocaust went beyond the use of concentration camps, yet camps were part of the process, Ocasio-Cortez wrote on Twitter.
They have also been used before and after, she added.
Ocasio-Cortez has garnered a flurry of criticism since referring to President Donald Trump as a fascist whose administration is running concentration camps on the U.S.-Mexico Southern border last week.
That is exactly what they are. They are concentration camps, she claimed during a live-stream on Instagram. The fact that concentration camps are now an institutionalized practice in the Home of the Free is extraordinarily disturbing and we need to do something about it.
Her eyebrow-raising tirade, in which she said uttered Never Again, a phrase synonymous with Holocaust remembrance, were met with scorn from Republicans, namely Cheney, who urged her colleague to learn actual history before commenting on the hot button topic.
Please @AOC do us all a favor and spend just a few minutes learning some actual history, Cheney tweeted in response to her comments. 6 million Jews were exterminated in the Holocaust. You demean their memory and disgrace yourself with comments like this.
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History has moved on from that definition, and the same is true for concentration camps.
And we're not yet ready to move on from the meaning of "never forget."
If Cortez is too uneducated to see the distinction, and too thin-skinned to feel the need to blame Liz Cheney for her mistake, then she's proving to her constituents that she really doesn't deserve to be in Congress.
-PJ
I’m finally getting this chick, she’s right out of “VEEP”.
She’s the female, latina, urban, normal-sized except in the tooth-and-eye department JONAH!
She didn’t mean “concentration camps”, like Belsen-Bergen or the Gulags, or what FDR did to the Japanese, she actually meant “re-education camps”.
No, wait...
Please ping me when the ‘Caged Death Match’ is scheduled between AOC and Liz.
President Trump could pull some string and host it on the WWWE!
*SNORT*
AOC would argue both provide free clothing. She’s ridiculous. It’s ridiculous she’s in Congress or some of these others... asking to see the US flag we planted on Mars or if Guam will tip over or maybe perhaps marrying your brother to scam immigration. Republicans get their own gems but nothing quite like what Democrats will elect.
Sigh. If ONLY she could prove to them that she shouldn’t be in Congress.
If only. That would mean her constituents STILL have some discriminating senses and logic, which...would be encouraging in a way.
That they DON’T, and this will not only make no difference to them, but will likely encourage them to support her is discouraging for this country.
No 29 year old that sounds like a 12 year old with a brain of a 4 year old is gonna tell me what to do or think.
Spot on!
The question is, whether AOC will ever learn that her delusions are blinding her thinking and come to the truth? She definitely is affected by the delusion of her Leftist ideology which does not regard fact-based information as relevant. Without learning based upon facts, there would not be not have been the progress we have seen through the years that has made American Culture as great as it is. In fact, we would still be stuck in the Dark Ages, which is where her ideology would take us.
According to AOC’s “logic”, depicting the swastika should be OK since the swastika was used benignly long before the Nazis took control.
Ms AOC:
Flores Settlement.
Google it.
Then take your insane ranting to Bill Clinton and the ACLU; Janet Reno no longer being available.
We have concentration camps that people risk their lives to force their way into.
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Nice try, it's Liz's fault.
I remember when a district such as AOC’s would be punished for sending such a Rep. They would loose every Federal dollar of employment and they would not re-send such a nasty Representative.
Princess Pelosi wouldn’t dare.
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