"It’s because, if you haven’t had a transition in your life where, you know, you were maybe born poor or born without certain privileges and then especially as you transition into having certain privileges in your life, you actually see and feel and sense and taste and smell all of the differences. If you’ve never experienced different treatment in your life, you wouldn’t know what different treatment feels like or looks like. And it’s really, really hard. I mean, it’s like — and we can all, almost every single person in this country can acknowledge some privilege of some of some type, you know. I’m a cisgendered woman. I will never know the trauma of feeling like I’m not born in the right body. And that is a privilege that I have, no matter how poor my family was when I was born. But it’s really hard for some people to admit that they — you know, it’s part of this weird American Dream mythology that we have, that for a lot of — in a lot of circumstances isn’t as true or isn’t as clearly communicated as we’d like for it, or we wish it was.”
Now, I know on the surface it appears that she just takes a pile of words and throws them out there, in no particular order, hoping they somehow form sentences. They usually don't. However, this time, she makes some interesting points. They're probably not the points she was going for but...Whatever. Let's take it from the top. If "almost every single person in this Country can acknowledge some privilege of some type" then no one is actually privileged, right? I mean, it's like saying that everyone has some type of popsicle. Yours may be blue, mine may be orange, but it's still a popsicle, right? As long as we all have a popsicle what's the problem? Now, Ms. AOC says her privilege was being born a cicgendered woman. For those of you over 40, that means she's heterosexual. She says that, because of the privilege of being born heterosexual she will never know the trauma of feeling like she's not born in the right body. I can relate to that. You see, I am an intelligent woman and I will never know the trauma of being born an idiot. As far as the "weird American Dream mythology", well, she is a self-described socialist so dream the impossible dream...
Here's a couple of other head scratchers from Ms. AOC:
“Unemployment is low because everyone has two jobs. Unemployment is low because people are working 60, 70, 80 hours a week and can barely feed their family.” Um, No. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics only about 5% of Americans have 2 jobs. That's hardly "everyone" and, of that 5%, only about 6% have 2 full-time jobs (That's 0.3% of Americans for those of you keeping score at home). That would make the 60, 70 80 hour work week questionable at best.
“ICE is the only criminal investigative agency, the only enforcement agency in the United States, that has a bed quota. So ICE is required to fill 34,000 beds with detainees every single night and that number has only been increasing since 2009.” Wrong again. A 2016 appropriations bill said that ICE must maintain a level of 34,000 beds, not fill them. Beds, NOT people. That language was inserted to ensure that the money wouldn't be used elsewhere. That language was subsequently removed from future appropriations bills.
And my personal favorite...
Ocasio-Cortez called the fight to mitigate the effects of climate change her generation's "World War II." and said "Millennials, and Gen Z, and all these folks that come after us, are looking up and we're like, 'The world will end in 12 years if we don't address climate change, and your biggest issue is how are we gonna pay for it?" I'm going to give her the benefit of the doubt here and assume she knows that World War II actually happened already and pretty much covers all generations. As far as the 12 deadline, well, I say take that vacation you've always dreamed about. By the time your creditors catch up with you we'll all have gone the way of the dinosaurs....
Enjoy the Weekend!
Bella
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