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The Owen Jones Podcast

AOC'S 'Tax The Rich' dress is good, actually

The Owen Jones Podcast

Owen Jones

Politics, Government, News & Politics, News

4.41.4K Ratings

🗓️ 16 September 2021

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez wore a TAX THE RICH dress to the absurdly exclusive Met Gala - where people with obscene wealth live the high life - after a free invite. It didn't just predictably drive the AOC-obsessed right into howls of outrage and contempt, but some leftists, too.


But it was good, actually! Here's what it tells us about how the left communicates to a mass audience - not least in a nation historically immune to successful left-wing politics - about cultural hegemony, and about winning.


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0:00.0

They're Virgin Atlantic Holiday's sale. It's a big deal. Wherever you want to go in the world

0:06.3

Whether you want a ton of sun in the Caribbean, a ton of fun in Florida, or to go full-deaver in the Maldives

0:14.5

And the biggest deed of all you can book right now

0:18.8

The Virgin Atlantic Holiday's sale see the world differently

0:23.5

I am one of...

0:26.4

...Tesans' Appli, see VirginHolidays.co.uk for details

0:39.6

Left-wing US representative, Alexander A. K. Jolkore-Tes, got invited to the Met Gala for free

0:46.0

Which is an event attended by grotesquely rich people

0:49.4

And she turned up in a dress which was designed by a working class woman of color

0:55.5

Which was inscribed with the political slogan tax the rich this event as they say

1:01.2

...deskly rich people some of the richest people probably in the United States now

1:05.1

I'm turn led to

1:06.2

...strages and howls of outrage from the American right who will attack the left or whatever grounds they can find if you're too poor

1:14.4

You're driven by envy if you're too rich

1:17.2

Then you're driven by hypocrisy if you're too young

1:20.5

You're naive if you're too old you're a dinosaur. They'll find any reason they can that was also echoed by

1:26.3

Centris and libels who will also pal on the left for any reason they can but it was echoed by some US

1:33.2

Leftist and British leftists

1:35.2

online who

1:37.2

Attacked AOC with frankly the same attack lines as the right that if you're agitating for a fundamental redistribution

1:44.7

Of wealth and power while turning up to a gala for free full of a bunch of rich people with the political slogan

1:50.4

Tax the rich inscribed on your dress then you are hypocritical and probably an insincere career is now

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