We’re big fans of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the Congressional candidate who defeated longtime incumbent representative Joe Crowly in last week’s New York primary. Ocasio-Cortez ran on an ultra-progressive platform promising grassroots, hands-on change to benefit real working class people.
Pretty much! pic.twitter.com/73nxk22W55
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@Ocasio2018) July 2, 2018
Naturally, a lot of institutionalists are pretty scared of her and they’re trying out all the tactics they can think of to tear her down. Many have declared her too liberal or too radical for mainstream politics, including establishment leaders like Senators Nancy Pelosi and Tammy Duckworth, who have warned against voters getting “carried away” with such dramatic shift to the political left.
For her part, Ocasio-Cortez has the absolute perfect response to these claims, saying, “Working-class Americans want a clear champion and there is nothing radical about moral clarity in 2018.”
Now, Some Dudes on Twitter are taking another approach: attacking her cred as a “real New Yorker.”
This is the Yorktown Heights (very nice area) home @Ocasio2018 grew up in before going off to Ivy League Brown University.
A far cry from the Bronx hood upbringing she’s selling. pic.twitter.com/xyOtZzVJII
— John Cardillo (@johncardillo) July 1, 2018
I grew up in the city and attended a New York City public high school in the Bronx. You’re not one of us. Cultural misappropriation much? https://t.co/u4iQl30tWT
— Arthur Schwartz (@ArthurSchwartz) July 1, 2018
Ocasio-Cortez has given plenty of interviews in which she’s discussed her family’s decision to move to Yorktown when she was five years old, and the insight it gave her into what a difference a zip code makes, as she saw firsthand the lack of opportunities offered to her cousins in her old neighborhood, simply because of where they were born. But John Cardillo is full of garbage opinions, and a Google search tells me Arthur Schwartz is best known as “Anthony Scaramucci’s friend,” so this is to be expected, and maybe they don’t deserve Ocasio-Cortez’s attention or response. Nevertheless, they got it, and her response is, once again, perfect.
Hey John,
1. I didn’t go to Brown or the Ivy League. I went to BU. Try Google.
2. It is nice. Growing up, it was a good town for working people. My mom scrubbed toilets so I could live here & I grew up seeing how the zip code one is born in determines much of their opportunity.
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@Ocasio2018) July 1, 2018
3. Your attempt to strip me of my family, my story, my home, and my identity is exemplary of how scared you are of the power of all four of those things.
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@Ocasio2018) July 1, 2018
Yes, how dare Ocasio-Cortez have the gall–the absolute gall–to grow up in a HOUSE of all places??
I was a big supporter of Ocasio-Cortez but after the latest revelation that she grew up in a house, I can no longer support her in good conscience https://t.co/Ssywkyuqyz
— PeterNorway (@classiclib3ral) July 1, 2018
Ah, yes. The classic sign someone grew up wealthy: a small ranch-style house. pic.twitter.com/WBddBBhhYq
— Mike Drucker (@MikeDrucker) July 2, 2018
how can ocasio-cortez claim to be a “socialist” when she clearly also uh [scans notes] eats food pic.twitter.com/2CkclWIqO7
— KT NELSON (@KrangTNelson) July 2, 2018
Obviously, this requires memes.
I found this picture of @Ocasio2018’s childhood neighborhood. A little different from the above-ground upbringing she claims pic.twitter.com/Jz5Qp3NcLG
— Joe Gravellese (@joegrav) July 2, 2018
This is the Yorktown Heights (very nice area) home @Ocasio2018 grew up in before going off to Ivy League Brown University.
A far cry from the Bronx hood upbringing she’s selling pic.twitter.com/rSLq1o4gm8
— David Klion 🔥 (@DavidKlion) July 2, 2018
This is the Yorktown Heights (very nice area) home @Ocasio2018 grew up in before going off to Ivy League Brown University.
A far cry from the Bronx hood upbringing she’s selling pic.twitter.com/4oQu6HA3hz
— Imraan Siddiqi (@imraansiddiqi) July 2, 2018
This is the Yorktown Heights home (very nice neighborhood) that @Ocasio2018 grew up in before leaving to go to an Ivy League school. A far cry from the Bronx upbringing she’s selling. pic.twitter.com/RbywQC2bBz
— Joe Kassabian (@jkass99) July 1, 2018
This is the MOONBASE ALPHA (very nice area) home @Ocasio2018 grew up in before going off to Ivy League MOON UNIVERSITY.
A far cry from the Bronx hood upbringing she’s selling. pic.twitter.com/7Hq4OGzEoq
— popular comedy account “the pixelated boat” (@pixelatedboat) July 2, 2018
That last one was so good it elicited a response from Ocasio-Cortez.
My identity has been exposed. I am actually Captain Catherine Janeway of the USS Voyager
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@Ocasio2018) July 2, 2018
And yes, she knows she spelled Janeway’s name wrong!
I blew it!
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@Ocasio2018) July 2, 2018
HEADLINE: What Ocasio-Cortez’s Misspelling of Captain Janeway’s First Name Somehow Says About Millennial Midwest Politics
— Mike Drucker (@MikeDrucker) July 2, 2018
William Shatner is a moldy red pill of a human but I still appreciate this exchange:
I believe it but Kate may mop the floor with you for saying it. 😉 https://t.co/ULFrgrWwoc
— William Shatner (@WilliamShatner) July 2, 2018
Oh. My. Goodness. Nothing but respect for my Presidents!
(When I was a kid, my dad and I used to listen to old ToS episodes through scrambled cable TV channels. He was such a huge fan and name describe the episodes by the dialogue.
Thank you for this very special moment!)
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@Ocasio2018) July 2, 2018
Nothing but respect for OUR Congresswoman.
( image: Scott Heins/Getty Images)
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