Radical Democrat Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez addressed a socialist convention in Austin, Texas over the weekend where was caught on camera promoting a bizarre, antisemitic conspiracy theory.
“With media, with all this stuff, Palestine is basically a banned word. It’s censored. We don’t talk about it. No one knows about it,” she said. “Thank you for bringing it up, honestly, because we shouldn’t have to tiptoe around these things. We should be able to talk about it. And we shouldn’t allow people’s humanity to be censored.”
“Believing in the basic human dignity and the ability for a person to not be jailed or beaten for who they are, it does not mean that you are bigoted against any other community,” she explained. “And we gotta call that for what it is.”
Casar now name checks survivors of sexual assault who were plaintiffs in the recently settled lawsuit against the city over how APD handled sexual assault investigations. Working on the settlement was on of his last big Council actions and seems to have had a big effect on him.
— Austin Sanders (@daustinsanders) February 13, 2022
The crowd’s a little excited for the representative from New York. You might say she’s the real draw today 🤔 pic.twitter.com/44EjjebyxG
— Austin Sanders (@daustinsanders) February 13, 2022
“We need to remember that the people who are taking those tough votes are disproportionately Black, brown and women members of Congress carrying the fire… I don’t believe that a child should be in a cage on our border and I don’t believe a child should be in a cage in the West Bank.”