A conservative lawyer found himself poking fun at Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) for pronouncing her name correctly. On a segment of Fox News' The Ingraham Angle, host Laura Ingraham and guest Joe diGenova discussed Ocasio-Cortez's meteoric rise as a new, fresh voice in the Democratic Party.
The short clip seen online featured a series of jokes about Amazon founder and The Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos. Then, the subject of Ocasio-Cortez's accent came up, unprompted.
“She does the Latina thing where she does her, you know, ’Anastasio Ocasio-Cortez,'” diGenova said. To seem less offensive, he pronounced his name with a heavy accent.
Ingraham guest Joe Digenova says @AOC "does the Latino thing" when she talks. pic.twitter.com/sa1LLExkBA
— Jason Campbell (@JasonSCampbell) March 20, 2019
The baseless attack was met with a Twitter response from @AOC.
"If by ‘the Latina thing,’ she means I actually do the work instead of just talk about it, then yeah, I’m doing ‘the Latina thing,’" she wrote.
If by ‘the Latina thing,’ she means I actually do the work instead of just talk about it, then yeah, I’m doing ‘the Latina thing.’
Unless of course she‘s talking about being multilingual, which we know isn’t a ‘Latina thing.’
It’s a ‘21st century’ thing.https://t.co/v41dAyjshP
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) March 21, 2019
Rep. Ocasio-Cortez also demanded the news network put aside its clear bigotry to make a better effort pronouncing her full name.
By the way: Fox News likes to say my name (incorrectly) as “Cortez,” which I can only imagine is bc that sounds more ‘stereotypically’ Hispanic + probably incites more ‘anxiety’ for them.
Pro Tip:
My last name is not “Cortez,” just as theirs isn’t “Ingra” or “Carl” or “Hann.”— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) March 21, 2019
Since arriving in the House earlier this year, the right has intensified its attacks on the young lawmaker. Her recent announcement proposing a Green New Deal fighting against climate change is among the many things for which she has come under attack.
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