Posted on 07/31/2019 7:45:42 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) on Wednesday criticized a New York Times editor’s tweet suggesting Reps. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) and Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) did not represent the Midwest.
Jonathan Weisman, deputy Washington editor of The New York Times, made the comments in response to Justice Democrats spokesperson Waleed Shahid, who noted that the two progressive congresswomen were "from the Midwest."
Weisman tweeted that calling the two Midwestern “is like saying @RepLloydDoggett (D-Austin) is from Texas or @repjohnlewis (D-Atlanta) is from the Deep South.”
Ocasio-Cortez responded later in the morning, tweeting that her colleagues “literally are” Midwestern, adding “this comment is what erasure looks like. HIGH TURNOUT from DEEP BLUE SEATS &being competitive everywhere is the core of a winning strategy.”
“It’s disturbing to see this Trump talking pt that dense, diverse communities “aren’t the REAL [America/Midwest/etc],” she added.
Ocasio-Cortez is a close political ally of the two freshman congresswomen who, along with herself and Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.) have been collectively dubbed “The Squad.”
Omar also responded to the tweet, tweeting "this will certainly be news to people of Minnesota’s 5th District!"
Tlaib was born in Detroit, while Omar was born in Somalia but came to Minnesota as a child.
Shahid made his initial comments about Omar and Tlaib being "from the Midwest" after former Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.) said during an MSNBC panel Tuesday night after the latest Democratic presidential debate that “free stuff from the government doesn’t play well in the Midwest.”
He later responded to Weisman’s comments, saying in a statement, “The people who shape our national conversation should be telling the story of how we are all Americans, not repeating Trump’s racism. They do us all a disservice when they echo Trump’s dog whistles that tell us some people are more ‘American’ or ‘Midwestern’ than others -- that our lives and our votes matter less than others.”
“We must change the idea that people of color can’t exemplify the region -- or the nation -- in which we live,” he added.
Weisman doubled-down on the sentiment in follow-up tweets, tweeting "[P]lease don’t tell me that Atlanta is synonymous with Georgia. It isn't."
Proof positive that a bag of hammers can talk.
I would wager that AOC has never been to the Midwest.
A militant lefty from NYC tells the world she understands the Midwest.
AOC doesn’t even understand herself.
NYT must be racist.
slow news day.
These people are arrogant and believe we are here to serve them. Especially the Muslims.
To her, the Midwest is Manhattan................
Midtown : Midwest, what's the diff???
Don’t arrogant New Yorkers think a trip to New Jersey is a trip to the Midwest?
There is more truth to that than some would admit.
They are not typical of the Midwest. These sonofabitches want you to think they’re normal.
She automatically assumes that the author of the NYT article is talking about race. Even if Omar and Tlaib were lily white, their values, thoughts, and attitudes are not Midwestern, and that is the author’s point.
To level a charge without rebuttal or consequence says a lot.
Accomplices in CONgrre$$ and the pre$$. The members do not refute. The press does not refute. The agencies do not refute. The citizens of Texas do not refute. Time for the gallows for our “representatives” in the U.S.A? We, the citizens of the republic, don’t want...
...“concentration camps” in the republic.
We can give them a choice...Nuremberg method, jihadi finalizer, jimmie hodgkinson method.
–That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.
Who is responsible for the “concentration camps”?
Well they are representing Mid-Western districts, the question is whether or not that will continue to be the case after the next election.
The new talking point is that everything is a “Trump Talking Point”.
She learned a new sentence to say from her handlers.
[[To her, the Midwest is Manhattan................]]
or Binghamton.
I think it’s safe to safe that Omar and Tlaib are not representative of Midwest thinking - but they don’t represent the Midwest in any extended geographical sense, for example a state.
They each represent a congressional district WITHIN the Midwest whose politics are far left of center.
They are not typical of the Midwest. These sonofabitches want you to think they’re normal.
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Note her reference to “dense” districts.
As everywhere else, the urban areas of the Midwest have nothing in common with those of us who live in small towns, villages and in the country.
They are challenging us. They dispute our normality as Americans and Midwesteners. It is all part of the great replacement plan.
Unfortunately, even out here in flyover land, there are disaffected self-haters who will support the invasion and takeover. We all know who they are. Which is a point of interest
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