I'm going to tweet as if I were a Bernie basher who pretended to be a feminist anti-racist. Ahem. Here it goes... Once upon a time, Alexandria Ocasio Cortez was born and realized she wanted to be just like Hillary Clinton because her experience really resonated with her. She...
really liked Clinton's co-sponsoring of a bill that would have sent people to jail for flag-burning. She really liked Clinton's stumping for welfare reform & the crime bill. She really liked all the work The Clinton Foundation did in Haiti. She really liked Hillary's vote on...
Iraq. She really liked what Clinton did as SOS in Honduras. She really liked the way Clinton lied about her position on Honduras. And she really loved Clinton's sit-down interview with Mary J Blige. Basically, Clinton's whole brand of politics & policy appealed to Alexandria...
There was only one problem. Ocasio Cortez really needed male validation & approval. So, she decided to suppress the moderate who raged inside her. She pretended to be progressive. She pretended to care about the climate. She pretended to care about things that only misogynists...
like Sanders care about: #FightFor15, #medicareForAll, free college tuition. She wanted to impress men so badly that she even volunteered for Sanders' campaign. She went to Standing Rock even though she, in her hearts of hearts, actually agreed with Hillary on the issue when...
Clinton said, through a spokesperson, "all voices should be heard and all views considered in federal infrastructure projects. Now, all of the parties involved—including the federal government, the pipeline company and contractors, the state of North Dakota, and the tribes...
—need to find a path forward that serves the broadest public interest. As that happens, it's important that on the ground in North Dakota, everyone respects demonstrators' rights to protest peacefully, and workers' rights to do their jobs safely." It was such a heart-felt &...
principled statement that Joy Ann Reid "Kind of a BS statement by the Clinton camp on #NoDAPL, frankly. The outrage taking place out there cries out for outrage." But, again, Ocasio-Cortez was desperate to impress men, so she pretended she actually cared about people & the...
climate. She decided to run for office, too. She decided to even run on misogynist & racist things like #FightFor15 & #MedicareForAll etc. She even campaigned for other people with Sanders. Woke women of color like Tom Watson tried to reach their sister & warn her of how she...
was, you know, doing the word of the patriarchy. Because of course, if she had been a real feminist & Black woman like Hillary Clinton, she would have endorsed Black woman Andrew Cuomo over straight, white man Cynthia Nixon, But, like so many women of color before him, Watson...
was silenced. Luckily, he was able to commiserate with fellow WOC Peter Daou. Sadly, these two WOC, Watson & Daou, would be turned against each other by the white supremacist patriarchal project when Hillary Clinton tried to speak truth to power by telling Europe to curb...
immigration. Some people, even mistaken POC, wrongly thought that it was problematic for Clinton to make that point & misread it as xenophobic, racist & reactionary. They didn't realize that, as many Clinton-supporting have pointed out, it's easy to not adopt the politics...
of Le Pen when you're a straight white man like Bernie. It's not as easy to not do that when you're a woman, especially a Black woman. Anyway, sadly, Peter Daou internalized misogyny & racism & smeared Hillary Clinton for her comments. Watson, who has always been the stronger...
of the two intersectional feminists of color, was able to defend Hillary for embracing immigration quotas. He was able to see how subversive she was being. Ocasio-Cortez would not heed the cries of the brave WOC like Tom Watson who opened to many doors for her. Because ageism...
So, Alexandria decided she would violate her own principles and fight along side Sanders on behalf of a green New Deal. She tricked herself into caring about the planet and humanity all so she could carry water (no pun intended) for the patriarchy. While she was working on this..
some brave women came to her rescue. They, like all intersectional feminists, understand that being an ally and in solidarity means speaking for a woman who is to your Left, depriving her of agency & pathologizing her. She's, obviously, a gaslit victim. She obviously doesn't...
have any ideology. The women speaking for her are doing her a great service, are not at all cynical & disingenuous. They just know that women of color are a monolith who range on the spectrum from Tom Perez to Hillary Clinton. I just hope it's not too late for them to save...
Barbara Lee. It's too late for them to save Berta Cáceres. And I know how upset they are about her death.
