Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is not happy with Fox News. The U.S. Representative of New York’s 14th Congressional district blasted Fox News on Wednesday (Mar. 20) after a racist joke was made about Ocasio-Cortez’s “Latina thing.”
The incident occurred on Laura Ingraham’s show, “The Ingraham Angle” on Tuesday (Mar. 19). During a segment with Donald Trump’s lawyer, Joseph DiGenova, Ingraham asked if he noticed how Ocasio-Cortez introduces herself with an accent in certain spaces.
DiGenova responded: “She does the Latina thing where she does her, you know, ‘Anastasio Ocasio-Cortez.'” He emphasized his point by exaggerating the “r” in the politician’s name.
Ocasio-Cortez was obviously not amused by the comment. “If by ‘the Latina thing,’ she means I actually do the work instead of just talk about it, then yeah, I’m doing ‘the Latina thing,'” she fired back. “Unless of course, she‘s talking about being multilingual, which we know isn’t a ‘Latina thing.’ It’s a ’21st-century’ thing.”
Ocasio-Cortez then scolded Fox News for frequently pronouncing her last name incorrectly. “By the way: Fox News likes to say my name (incorrectly) as ‘Cortez,’ which I can only imagine is bc that sounds more ‘stereotypically’ Hispanic + probably incites more ‘anxiety’ for them,” she added. “Pro Tip: My last name is not ‘Cortez,’ just as theirs isn’t “Ingra” or “Carl” or ‘Hann.'”
Check out Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s tweet below.
Siri, show me the brand of ‘economic anxiety’ that mocks Americans of color as unintelligent + unskilled, while *also* mocking those same Americans for speaking more languages than you: pic.twitter.com/HXBC7Osexu
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) March 21, 2019
By the way: Fox News likes to say my name (incorrectly) as “Cortez,” which I can only imagine is bc that sounds more ‘stereotypically’ Hispanic + probably incites more ‘anxiety’ for them.
Pro Tip:
My last name is not “Cortez,” just as theirs isn’t “Ingra” or “Carl” or “Hann.”— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) March 21, 2019