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   Rep. Ocasio-Cortez appeared on Pod Save America and was asked if   
   she believes Trump supporters are racists. AOC gave a lengthy   
   answer which started with her claim that asking if someone is   
   racist is a trap. Eventually, she settled on the idea that many   
   Trump supporters don’t believe they are racist, but that’s only   
   because they aren’t sufficiently woke.   
      
   “I don’t necessarily want to vilify people who vote for Trump   
   but at the same time you also need to you also need to call   
   racism out,” host Jon Favreau said.   
      
   “The biggest mistake that we have, and it’s a trap that’s set by   
   the right whether intentionally or unintentionally, is just the   
   frame of asking ‘Is blank racist?'” Ocasio-Cortez replied. She   
   continued, “It’s not about asking whether Trump voters are   
   racist. We need to talk about racism, not racists.”   
      
   “Trump relied on a coalition and a core part of that coalition   
   were racists building a coalition with all sorts of other people   
   that could be susceptible to racist views if they were blanketed   
   and layered and made people feel good about it not being a   
   racist thing,” AOC said. She added, “And so there are a lot of   
   people support Trump that genuinely don’t believe that they are   
   racist because we do not talk about or educate people on   
   recognizing racism.   
      
   “And because we do not do that it just allows itself to just—we   
   get caught in this debate of is something racist, and then a   
   person uses their defensiveness and they say ‘Well, it’s not   
   racist because I’m not racist and I believe this thing because   
   it’s economic in nature.'”   
      
   She starts by saying not all of Trump’s supporters are racist   
   but she ends saying if Trump’s supporters were sufficiently   
   educated (by the woke left) they wouldn’t deny that they are   
   racist by pointing to things like economic factors.   
      
   As AOC sees it, anyone who denies being a racist is simply   
   taking a convenient out, i.e. making an excuse. Because the only   
   correct answer is that racism is responsible for everything   
   Trump supporters believe.   
      
   The comparison here isn’t to other political views but to   
   religious ones. Racism is the intersectional equivalent of   
   original sin. Everyone is guilty and if they deny it that just   
   proves they are far from salvation. The solution is the Great   
   Awokening, i.e. people are spontaneously overcome with the   
   conviction of their own sin and make a confession.   
      
   In fact, earlier in this clip, AOC specifically says that white   
   people are the demographic who need to get woke: “It’s going to   
   take a lot of white people. We need white people right now to do   
   the work…It’s white people talking to other white people about   
   race. And that I think is a lot of what we’re going to need.”   
      
   I don’t think accusations of racism leveled at millions of   
   people this casually really deserve much of a response. And,   
   let’s face it, the whole game AOC is playing renders any   
   response pointless. As she’s already said, anyone who denies it   
   simply hasn’t been educated enough. And therein lies what I   
   believe is the real reason AOC and others who adopt this   
   viewpoint have done so: They see themselves as the teachers,   
   which necessarily puts them in charge. If you follow AOC on   
   Twitter you may have noticed that she only has two modes:   
   Accusing and teaching. In fact, her social media motto seems to   
   always be teaching. She is never the learner and that’s true   
   even when she clearly doesn’t know what she’s talking about.   
      
   You see the same dynamic with the students at Evergreen State   
   College where a bunch of woke 19 and 20-year-olds were confident   
   they should be educating the entire faculty. It’s a viewpoint   
   that appeals to a lot of people who want to be in charge of what   
   everyone does (see the Green New Deal) without having to do much   
   or know much about anything in particular.   
      
   https://hotair.com/archives/john-s-2/2019/08/15/aoc-lot-people-   
   support-trump-genuinely-dont-believe-racist/   
      
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