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Narjas Zatat
Jul 31, 2020
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is the youngest woman to ever be elected into US congress.
Her age and non-traditional background (she comes from a low-income family, she did not attend an Ivy League university and she has 'socialist' stamped on her party identification) makes her a politician for the people.
It also makes her a target, especially for Republicans.
This became self evident last week, when she was subject to abusive remarks made by Republican Representative Ted Yoho.
Following his lacklustre apology, she gave a scathing speech about the systemic sexism that led to his remarks. It went instantly viral.
And this isn't the first time she's clapped back in the best possible way.
Her responses to the steady line of attack has been one of offence, and her retorts both hit the mark and remain light-hearted.
Here are four of AOC's best, even before she was elected to Congress.
1. Clapping back against accusations that she was pretending to be from the Bronx
John Cardillo, a host of Newsmax’s America Talks Live took to Twitter to say that Ocasio-Cortez actually lived in a house in a ‘very nice area’ and concluded that she went to Brown University.
Both of these things attempted to poke a hole in Ocasio-Cortez’s consistent image of a woman who came from a working class background.
He was wrong. By a lot.
This is the Yorktown Heights (very nice area) home @Ocasio2018 grew up in before going off to Ivy League Brown Univ… https://t.co/wzoTSsBh8i— John - Free Floridian - Cardillo (@John - Free Floridian - Cardillo) 1530463603
Ocasio-Cortez's response:
1. I didn’t go to Brown or the Ivy League. I went to BU. Try Google.
2. It is nice. Growing up, it was a good town for working people. My mom scrubbed toilets so I could live here & I grew up seeing how the zip code one is born in determines much of their opportunity.
3. Your attempt to strip me of my family, my story, my home, and my identity is exemplary of how scared you are of the power of all four of those things.
@johncardillo Hey John, 1. I didn’t go to Brown or the Ivy League. I went to BU. Try Google. 2. It is nice. Growi… https://t.co/74AClMTRrY— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez) 1530467584
@johncardillo 3. Your attempt to strip me of my family, my story, my home, and my identity is exemplary of how scar… https://t.co/PdSUsueaRS— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez) 1530467670
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