AOC Blames Trump’s Racism, Xenophobia For Afghan Chaos

Thursday on MSNBC’s The ReidOut, socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) claimed idiotically that former President Donald Trump’s “extremely xenophobic and racist immigration policies” were to blame for the current Afghanistan exit chaos.

Asked by racist propagandist anchor Joy Reid if xenophobia played a role in the reluctance of some in the United States to accept a flood of refugees fleeing the Biden sh*tshow that is Afghanistan, AOC replied, “It is no secret that the Trump administration carried out extremely xenophobic and racist immigration policies.”

Absolutely false, but a pillar of Democrat talking points.

“When we look at the turmoil of what is happening now, one of the questions we have to ask as well — Afghanistan is a responsibility and that falls upon the shoulders of virtually every president since George W. Bush,” AOC continued. “One of the things we see, what was the Trump administration doing when they were not pre-evacuating out under the SIV program, these Afghan interpreters and nationals and allies? It is because of [Trump advisor] Stephen Miller and his rhetoric and the xenophobia of the Trump administration that there were many thousands of Afghans we could have worked on evacuating much earlier than even this year.”

Again, absolutely false. It is the Biden administration, not the Trump administration, that has abandoned our allies among the Afghans, in addition to our own citizens there. The Biden administration had seven months to evacuate them from Afghanistan, and failed horribly.

The Democrats own this disaster, and AOC and Joy Reid know it. That’s why they have to create this smear of a narrative blaming Trump and “racism.”

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Defending Critical Race Theory

During a July 19, 2021 interview on CNN’s Don Lemon Tonight, Ocasio-Cortez spoke in defense of the teaching of Critical Race Theory in America’s public schools: “Why don’t you want our schools to teach anti-racism? Why don’t Republicans want their kids to know the tradition of anti-racism in the United States? Why are Republicans trying to ban books in this country? Why are Republicans trying to ban speech? Why are they trying to fire certain professors? Why are they attacking the core roots of history in this country that strays anything beyond what we already know? Why don’t Republicans want us to learn how to not be racist? Why don’t Republicans want kids to know how to not be racist?”

The congresswoman continued: “Republicans are using these words like Critical Race Theory, which again is a law school curriculum that is not even taught in schools. Their argument is well, some teachers may be exposed to it. Oh, wow, so your child’s teacher is anti-racist and actually fluent in how to dismantle racism in the dynamics of racism in a classroom. That is something that teachers should know how to do. Republicans are trying to ban this. They are trying to ban us from knowing our own history. Because if we don’t know our own history, then it is easier for them to curtail our rights to vote and take us backward to the 1960s as they have been doing with many state laws.”

Ocasio-Cortez also “the Republican base and party” of having “pivoted to using race and using the changing demographics of this country and as we saw on January 6, using a white supremacist core logic in order to reanimate a very core fear of the other in this country.”

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