Controversial Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez defended her vicious comments made on social media Monday night; blaming "shrieking Republicans" for the political fallout after she compared immigration detention centers with Nazi Concentration Camp.
To begin with, it does nothing for Ocasio-Cortez's argument to boil down concentration camps to merely "the mass detention of civilians without trial", when the entire goal of the facilities she is misdescribing is to detain individuals pending further hearings. "And if that doesn't bother you".
"The fact that concentration camps are now an institutionalized practice in the home of the free is extraordinarily disturbing and we need to do something about it", she said, in an apparent reference to the "land of the free and the home of the brave" line in "The Star-Spangled Banner".
"I believe that there is a very real animus and desire to make sure that we are - that - that we are holding this president to account", she added.
"I don't use those words to just throw bombs".
On Tuesday, Ocasio-Cortez doubled down by tweeting an Esquire link arguing that concentration camps are exactly what is happening at the border. "A presidency that creates concentration camps is fascist, and it's very hard to say that".
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However, Ocasio-Cortez said if Biden does become the nominee, she would back him in the general election.
Following the backlash, Ocasio-Cortez attempted to lecture Republicans who "don't know the difference" between concentration camps and death camps.
Cheney, a self-proclaimed authority on Jewish history and memory, accused AOC of "demeaning" the memory of Holocaust victims, whom Cheney herself dehumanized by describing them as having been "exterminated" like vermin. "I use that word because that is what an administration that creates concentration camps is", she said.
In the same live stream, Ocasio-Cortez condemned the U.S.'s "business-owned government" for bringing upon Americans multiple crises, among which she included Trump's election.
"Anything is possible: today was the day a group of dedicated, everyday New Yorkers & their neighbors defeated Amazon's corporate greed, its worker exploitation, and the power of the richest man in the world", Ocasio-Cortez tweeted at the time.
Not to be outdone, Ocasio-Cortez quickly returned serve at her Republican counterpart.
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