Why I'm not a superfan of AOC

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121. woah -- i suggest you take a breather and re-evaluate

surely you can see that bringing up the kkk when talking about a black candidate is... problematic at best?

i mean, he could have used any republican in his hypothetical, in fact he could have said "some conservative republican" without even offering a specific name. but no, he had to use the grand wizard of the ku klux klan as part of his justification for not supporting a black woman. problematic, no?

surely you can see that failing to supply a good reason for not supporting a black woman democratic candidate, given his job, was, again, problematic at best?


i mean, even if he hadn't mentioned the kkk, his answer was nothing more than "because i don't have to". minorities get that kind of crap all the time and they know damn well that people give reasonable answers when they have reasonable answers to give. they give evasive b.s. when they don't. AOC, and I are on firm ground to think there's something... problematic here.


so, now, what about AOC's response is out of line here? calling out apparent bigotry and sexism when it certainly appears that there's bigotry and sexism there to be called out? and surely you can see that AOC, as an outspoken woman/minority is going to be quite motivated to speak out against such things?

how can it have nothing to do with it?

hypothetically, let's say senator schumer said what AOC said. in his own words, but called the original statement out as racist and misogynistic and called for his resignation.

would you really have objected to that?

really?


i will give you that bringing the 1/6 insurrectionists into it wasn't helpful, but i agree with everything else h2oman posted.