Rep. Ocasio-Cortez claimed Saturday that her Green New Deal would implement measures to fix the “wealth inequalities” caused by systemic racism.
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This is the SAME systemic racism that AOC couldn’t successfully identify to Steven Crowder last week when they had a brief ‘back and forth’ on twitter.
Speaking at the South by Southwest conference in Austin, Texas, the freshman Democrat from New York sought to portray her sweeping proposal for environmental and social justice as more race-conscious than the original New Deal.
“A lot of people don’t know this story of the New Deal, a lot of people don’t know what redlining is,” she said, referring to the federal government’s one-time refusal to insure mortgages in black neighborhoods.
Ocasio-Cortez’s argument alleges that the lack of understanding of the policies behind white wealth helps to perpetuate racism against blacks and other minorities.
“When people are not educated about the tools and the systems that created racial wealth gap disparities or other wealth gap disparities … you create this gaping maw in which someone can tell a racist story that kind of tells people why a certain community is poor.”
“They’re poor because they’re lazy. They’re poor because they’re uneducated. They’re poor because this,” Ocasio-Cortez continued, mimicking a racist. “Where no ones say they’re poor because they’re redlining and everyone else inherited a house except for people of color.”
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Ocasio-Cortez’s African-American interviewer went on to add, “Yeah, I’ve got no house,” thusly proving that racism is keeping them down. 🤣🤣🤣
“Yeah, yeah, exactly,” Ocasio-Cortez agreed.
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AOC also took time to call capitalism an ‘irredeemable’ system.
“Capitalism is an ideology of capital – the most important thing is the concentration of capital and to seek and maximize profit,” “And that comes at any cost to people and to the environment, so to me capitalism is irredeemable.”