In the wake of last night’s horrifying massacre at two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) took to Twitter to share some words of solidarity and condolences — and to hit back at a president who was cited as an inspiration for the shooter for being “a symbol of renewed white identity and common purpose.”
Friends,
Morning (Friday) is Jummah, the weekly day of worship for our community of Muslim friends and loved ones.
Be there for them. Check in. Perhaps extend a kind gesture at your local mosque.
There is so much fear and hate.
We must negate it with active, courageous love.
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) March 15, 2019
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In a series of tweets, Ocasio-Cortez rightfully slammed the president for spreading Islamophobia and inciting hatred against immigrants through his racist travel ban against Muslims from certain countries and for defunding the federal programs that focused on stopping the spread of white supremacy and monitoring white supremacist groups.
Daily reminder that we have a **Muslim Ban** in this country made out of the President’s hostility to Muslim people w/ little-to-no supporting evidence, and a Republican Party that tolerates it.
There is so much work to do. Repealing the Ban is square 1.https://t.co/dqrCsedMrt
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) March 15, 2019
Since taking office, the Trump team has slashed the Office of Terrorism Prevention Partnerships’ budget to one-seventh of its original $21 million and cut its workforce in half — not to mention actively promoting Islamophobic conspiracy theories and white nationalist rhetoric, smearing immigrants, and going out of its way to avoid condemning white supremacist groups and the hate crimes they commit.
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All of these are terrorist incidents.
We have a responsibility to understand how white supremacy + online radicalization works, because it is impacting our entire society.
President Trump defunded Federal programs designed to fight the spread of white supremacist hate groups. https://t.co/7WgC65f5Fp
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) March 15, 2019
Since Trump took office and began implementing his hateful policy agenda, hate crimes against people of color have skyrocketed as the right-wing media machine took off their hoods and kicked their white nationalist propaganda into overdrive. He and all of his enablers bear a heavy responsibility for normalizing and promoting the kind of hate that leads to these massacres, and it’s inspiring to see one of our Congresspeople brave enough to call him out on it.
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