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Mariana

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21. Has AOC made fun of Southern or Appalachian people?

Reply to BGBD (Reply #20)

Wed Jan 13, 2021, 11:21 PM

Jan 2021

Are you aware of any instances of her doing that?

Anyway, we're not talking about making fun. We're talking about dismissing ideas out of hand because someone from New York is talking about them, rather than someone from Alabama.

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