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Monday, February 15, 2021

AOC Blames Trump for Attacks on Asian-Americans, Runs Into the Buzzsaw of Reality

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“The U.S. Is Seeing a Massive Spike in Anti-Asian Hate Crimes,” reported New York Magazine’s The Cut on Monday, with the predictable analysis: It’s all Trump’s fault. That intrepid warrior for freedom, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-Ditzy), known to the legions who follow all the episodes of her superheroine adventures as AOC, was eager to believe. There was just one problem: reality intervened.

“Many blame the Trump administration for inciting this violence,” reported The Cut’s Madeleine Aggeler, apparently with a straight face. You see, “Trump and numerous other members of his White House staff embraced racist and xenophobic anti-Asian rhetoric early on in the pandemic, repeatedly referring to COVID-19 as the ‘China virus’ and the ‘Wuhan virus.’”.......... O Oracle of Righteousness! 

And so we all locked arms and prepared to march together on the glorious socialist path, paved with images of the miscreant Trump so that we could trample his vile visage under our feet, but then – a small snag developed. 

The Cut had included with its story a video of a man in Oakland, California, walking up behind a 91-year-old man on a street and suddenly, viciously, pushing the old man to the ground. The perpetrator turned out to be a man named Yahya Muslim who had committed several other attacks on random passersby.

This was actually mentioned in The Cut’s story: “Oakland police later said they believed that the man in the video is Yahya Muslim, 28.” The story also notes that it “has been updated,” although it doesn’t say how, so it’s possible that the original story didn’t include mention of Mr. Muslim, and isn’t certain that AOC knew the identity of the perpetrator when she posted her tweet blaming Trump. It is certain, however, that she has had several days now to explain how she decided that a crime by a black Muslim, two groups that she would be the first to insist were on the front line of Trump’s victims, had to be Trump’s fault............To Read More....

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