Ocasio-Cortez Flashes Far Right Hand Sign, Does She Deserve Context?
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🗓️ 9 June 2019
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Ocasio-Cortez Flashes Far Right Hand Sign, Does She Deserve Context? Ocasio-Cortez just flashed the Ok sign and of course no one cares. Why? We all know, especially Ocasio-Cortez, what the hand sign means right?
Conservatives and Trump supporters have been accused of the worst for making the gesture. Innocent people playing the circle game have been banned and fired all because they didn't know that trolls had staged a hoax.
But why would the far left and social justice activists now decide to ignore Ocasio-Cortez making the gesture? They pull out every stop to accuse people of being wrong or evil but when it comes to the new aristocrats they are allowed to break the rules.
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| 0:00.0 | Context doesn't matter. We've heard it over and over again. Remember when Count Dankula made |
| 0:06.5 | that video of his pug and they said, context doesn't matter, you were offensive, you're in trouble. |
| 0:11.6 | Now I understand the UK is a different country than the US. But in the US there have been many |
| 0:15.7 | instances in the past few years where people who have made the Okhan gesture have been accused |
| 0:22.7 | of being fringe alt-right whatever. And often the context is disregarded. You may have |
| 0:29.6 | noticed the thumbnail of this video. I found this article interesting. Ocasio-Cortez pushes to make |
| 0:36.7 | it easier to study shrooms and other psychedelic drugs. I thought that was actually really awesome. |
| 0:42.4 | And there are a lot of things in the past few weeks that I absolutely agree with Ocasio-Cortez on. |
| 0:47.3 | Most notably, she's teaming up with Ted Cruz to stop politicians from then becoming lobbyists. |
| 0:53.2 | Good stuff. Not all bad. However, I saw this picture and I wondered what did Ocasio-Cortez mean by |
| 1:00.0 | this? And I thought it's silly to even point out because one of the bigger issues is that there's a |
| 1:07.6 | double standard and we know it. Why even bother bringing it up? You'll get accused of bringing it up |
| 1:11.6 | in bad faith and no one will say, oh, we know she hasn't meet anything about it because Ocasio-Cortez |
| 1:17.2 | is a progressive. And then I thought about it. Well, hold on. There are many circumstances where |
| 1:23.8 | the context was irrelevant. And they still said it doesn't matter because trolls use it. The idea |
| 1:31.1 | being that even if you're just trying to troll somebody or you're making it because you're |
| 1:35.3 | scuba diving or because you're playing the circle game, the context doesn't matter. I've got a |
| 1:40.7 | bunch of examples of this. But here we can see this photo of Ocasio-Cortez from the Associated Press, |
| 1:45.6 | presumably somewhat recently, doing the okay hand gesture while talking. Does Ocasio-Cortez |
| 1:51.9 | not know what she's insinuating by doing that? Why is it that someone would assume she doesn't |
| 1:58.1 | mean anything by it? There have been other people who did things not meaning anything by it or |
| 2:02.5 | simply trying to support the president and has been accused of being the worst of the worst. |
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