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CORTEZ GIVES TWITTER A LESSON ON 'CODE SWITCHING' AFTER CONSERVATIVES CRITICIZE HER ACCENT
Newsweak ^ | 4/07/19 | GILLIAN EDEVANE

Posted on 04/08/2019 1:48:40 PM PDT by Libloather

New York Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez continued to defend herself against claims promoted by Donald Trump, Jr. and others that she changes her accent to pander to minority audiences.

In a string of Saturday evening tweets, the first-term Democrat wrote that her habit of "code-switching" was informed by years of navigating professional and social environments as a woman of color.

"Next time you‘re told straight hair is 'unprofessional' and that speaking like your parents do is 'uneducated,' then you can complain about code-switching," she wrote, referring to the practice of changing speech patterns based on environment. "Code-switching is a tool communities learn when they’re told their voice, appearance and mannerisms are “unprofessional.”

**SNIP**

Her Saturday remarks came after commentators accused her of adopting a southern-like drawl while speaking at Rev. Al Sharpton’s National Action Network convention in New York on Friday.

(Excerpt) Read more at newsweek.com ...


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To: Libloather; SunkenCiv
"Ancient Chinese secret, huh?"


61 posted on 04/08/2019 4:12:56 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Denounce DUAC - The Democrats Un-American Activists Committee)
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To: ifinnegan

Commie folkies hated rock until they subverted it.
Same with punk music (which began as an affront to the hippies)


62 posted on 04/08/2019 4:15:35 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Denounce DUAC - The Democrats Un-American Activists Committee)
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To: Libloather; archy; BrooklynGOP; Theresa; hoosierboy; Ann Archy; Silly; onyx; Tricia; knighthawk; ...
Al Sharpton, ladies and gentlemen, AL SHARPTON, they all come to kiss his ... ring...


63 posted on 04/08/2019 4:15:52 PM PDT by BTerclinger (MAGA)
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To: BadLands59
Woman of color, my a$$. She’s lighter skinned than I am, and since when has straight hair been unprofessional? Somebody smarter than her just taught her a new phrase, and she had to use it in a sentence. What a dingbat. She got caught black-voice pandering, and she cannot let it go.

Was waiting for a post like this, thank you!

And, yep, this one is a total fraud. My wife, darker than AOC and actually both black and latin, unlike AOC, and who knows exactly when to straighten her hair and when to go curly, and who never in her life said "can I axe you?" and who never pandered to anyone and instead tells them straight whether they like it or not, is a far, far, far more successful and impactful human being than this fraud.

Me, I'm just an ignorant white boy who married up, but I know a fraud when I see one.
64 posted on 04/08/2019 4:16:17 PM PDT by nicollo (I said no!)
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To: Leep

didn’t Bananarama do that?

Or was that Otis Day and the Nights “Shamalamadingdong”?


65 posted on 04/08/2019 4:17:45 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Denounce DUAC - The Democrats Un-American Activists Committee)
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To: CharlesMartelsGhost

I bow to you, sir!


66 posted on 04/08/2019 4:20:25 PM PDT by BTerclinger (MAGA)
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To: BadLands59

Obama “went street” for his book on tape:

Obama 2012 Campaign Ad - Buy Your Own Damn Fries
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92baDJVZcCo


67 posted on 04/08/2019 4:20:28 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Denounce DUAC - The Democrats Un-American Activists Committee)
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To: Libloather

She ain’t no ways tired.


68 posted on 04/08/2019 4:22:21 PM PDT by kaehurowing
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To: nicollo

Does AOC carry hot sauce in her purse when she panders to black audiences?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zB5mMAqnWKY


69 posted on 04/08/2019 4:24:39 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Denounce DUAC - The Democrats Un-American Activists Committee)
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To: a fool in paradise

Yep.


70 posted on 04/08/2019 4:26:06 PM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: Sirius Lee

As John Cardillo from “America Talks Live” said: “This is what blackface looks like”.


71 posted on 04/08/2019 4:28:14 PM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: BTerclinger

You’re on a roll.


72 posted on 04/08/2019 4:43:52 PM PDT by Ezekiel (The pun is mightier than the s-word.)
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To: joelt

Yes if Beto was an R he wouldn’t have even been elected dog catcher. The left would have roasted him for being a fake hispanic and the Rs would have dropped him like a dirty shirt.


73 posted on 04/08/2019 4:50:21 PM PDT by Tammy8
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To: Libloather

How is Occasional Cowfarts a “person of Color?” She’s Hispanic, so her ancestry is Southwestern Europe, which is pretty analogous to Trump’s Central European heritage. Their ancestors were separated by 1500 miles and shared a common Judeo Christian culture. Spanish people and Germanic people are Caucasian. She should stop invoking this bs race card.


74 posted on 04/08/2019 5:18:03 PM PDT by Antioch (Benedikt Gott Geschickt)
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To: Fiddlstix

Alexandria Ocasio Chupakabra. Lmao


75 posted on 04/08/2019 5:36:02 PM PDT by JudgemAll (Democrats Fed. job-security in hate:hypocrites must be gay like us or be tested/crucified)
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To: JudgemAll

Thanks. I need to come up with a stand alone Alexandria Ocasio Chupakabra meme

76 posted on 04/08/2019 6:01:54 PM PDT by Fiddlstix (Warning! This Is A Subliminal Tagline! Read it at your own risk!(Presented by TagLines R US))
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To: TBP

Haha She’s Brooklyn hipster flipster from very Westchester. she’s the kind of twit that gets beat on in the Bronx


77 posted on 04/08/2019 6:19:30 PM PDT by atc23
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To: SharpRightTurn

Anybody else ever hear the term “code switching “? Me neither. She made that shit up.


78 posted on 04/08/2019 6:21:46 PM PDT by atc23
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To: Libloather

Most people call it “acting”.


79 posted on 04/08/2019 6:29:05 PM PDT by GingisK
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To: BTerclinger

Those were actually quite funny


80 posted on 04/08/2019 6:43:25 PM PDT by Yaelle
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