AOC discovers a new word
She's done it again! As they say in the hood: She's schoolin us!
At an event for an Ohio congressional candidate, Nina Turner (the most extreme candidate in the race), AOC spoke of another change she wants for our backward nation. She told those Ohio yahoo's what's needed and what she wants for us. She wants justice, she wants peace, and she wants prosperity. That’s what she wants! What is wrong with the rest of us for not wanting the same?
Then she laid it on us: "I want to abolish our carceral system that's designed to trap Black and Brown men."
For those who may not know carceral is a word. It is one of those words that we seldom hear because like putting a whole pickle into a sandwich, carceral requires the right sentence for usage. So this past Saturday AOC found a way into the headlines again. She did it with a word. This is what a BU education produces! We should warn parents when they bring their kids and their shortlisdts to Boston to evaluate which university is best. It is something special to have a choice. I imagine BU accepts many. The lesson here is: Give the alternative a try.
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She truly is our moral compas. Some may recall the story she told us of the woman who was incarcerated at Rikers Island. "The conditions were so bad, she too had drank out of toilets" .....AOC.
The toilet at Rikers Island:
I understand that Rikers has ordered a gold plated version just in case.
Combination sink/toilets have become all the rage in prisons. And of course, they lend credence to those who claim they were forced to drink from a toilet!
Indeed, I do. She also falsely, emotionally, and tearfully told us the same a few years ago about the women's bathroom facilities in Trump's southwestern border prisons for illegal aliens. They were the same as the Rikers toilet/sink units (which always have different water sources) in your photo.
If she really wants to do something to fix the "carceral system", she should demand a meeting with Joe Biden and Kamala Harris and then publicly excoriate them for their notorious histories of incarcerating "black and brown men".
Since her self-stated "inauguration" in 2019, Sandy Cortez has repeatedly proven that she slept through her BU classes.
Dont try to do urban lingo. We have enough comedy as it is.
No such thing as too much comedy IMO.
That why i came back here .... for the comic relief some members provide.
AOC knew the meaning of "carceral". You did not.
Hint - The base word of carceral is Incarceration...
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As did you. And it's one of those real valuable words that everyone around the dinner table should discuss ad nauseum...../s
The word was new to me, but any feminist would have been aware of it since 2007.
One of her staffers probably had to spell it for her anyway!
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Oh no, just like Donald, AOC knows the best words ... although Donald, that powerhouse of feminism, would have surely believed it was a cereal.
Defund the police and close the prisons. What could possibly go wrong?
Social justice by eliminating the legal justice system won't be a train wreck? Maybe AOC is pandering to the wrong people.
And they say we are the extremists.
Maybe AOC is pandering to the wrong people.
Hum....It worked so well on campus. Perhaps we should have put a stop to it right then and there!
But there's that 'free speech' thingy that the ACLU used to wave around so often.
Those were the days - back when they were on the outside looking in. Now they are the establishment! They see things a bit differently now.
"Nina Turner (the most extreme candidate in the race)"
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If you are a conservative/right wing extremist, and you need to complain about AOC's large vocabulary, you've already lost.
Try Nationalist. She is a spaceshot, who is UNFIT to serve in the US Congress.
She's more intelligent that almost all of the crap I see online from right wingers/white nationalists.
Since there aren't many, so called "White nationalists," that isn't saying much. You did work that if for a reason, right?
I personally would like so see a reasonable definition here of a right wing/white nationalist. Seems to me that this becoming a convenient catch phrase on NT for any Republican and/or right leaning conservative that does not share the world view of many on the hard core liberal left who are all too eager to tar all conservatives with right leaning views with the same brush.
Don’t forget “fascist.” Lol.
They said George W was a fascist.
But then bush showed himself as a never trumper and suddenly he was ok. And then there was john mccain. Back when he ran for president the left called him all sorts of nasty things but as soon as he comes out against trump he was suddenly a hero. Same thing with romney. I really don’t think liberals have a clue as to how stupid they look.
Goldwater the libertarian was a Nazi too. Everyone's who disagrees with them is a Nazi, and a fascist until they are safely dead or no longer a political threat, and then they are held up as a what "Good Republicans" look like. Mitt Romney was the racist, murderer of old ladies in 2012 who was going to put black people back in chains according to Biden, but they'll call him a saint when he dies.
It's just sad they've fallen for it for generations at this point, without ever realizing how easily they've been manipulated.
Remember the importance of the villain to any story.
They've had a little help. A financial crisis and a pandemic played out perfectly for the left.
Considering how Trump has massacred common words time after time after time, you don't get to climb on a high horse about one word from someone else. I would hate to have your nerve in a tooth.
You mean prison? Just say “prison.” It’s way less douchey and pretentious. When you’re using a word that you know is not used in common speech, and you are trying to communicate to the general public, then you are being a pretentious, posturing douchebag.
No, it isn’t. It isn’t designed for that at all. It’s designed to hold convicted criminals regardless of their color or sex. If it were designed to trap black and brown men, it’s doing a shitty job of it. Have a look at the demographics for California’s prisons :
28.5% of the prison population is black. Are they over represented? Absolutely. But that number also means that 71.5% of prisoners are not black. That’s a pretty inefficient performance for a system designed to trap black men.
Across the country , the number of black men in prison has declined steadily over the last 15 years, with whites and blacks having almost equal overall numbers in prison. Again, that’s a poor showing for something designed to trap black men.
Say what you will about AOC but I would like to see her in the Olympic beach volleyball thong.