AOC Accuses Trump of Racism, Claims His Language Makes “Millions of People More Vulnerable to Hate Crimes”

New York Times Columnist, President Trump critic, and Bernie Sanders supporter, Jamelle Bouie, recently shared an article written by two others at his newspaper titled, “Spit On, Yelled At, Attacked: Chinese-Americans Fear for Their Safety.” The article says that “President Trump is using language that Asian-Americans say is inciting racist attacks.”

Bouie claimed that the acts described in the article were, “the predictable consequences of the president’s rhetoric.” To him, “it’s rage inducing.” He followed up that tweet by saying, “of course i was told that it was raising the ‘racism canard’ to worry about this exact thing.”

of course i was told that it was raising the “racism canard” to worry about this exact thing.

— b-boy bouiebaisse (@jbouie) March 23, 2020

US House Rep AOC picked up on the article and retweeted with a message of her own claiming that, “many who’ve never had to deal with the consequences of such rhetoric think objecting to the President’s racism is about ‘political correctness.'” She continues by saying her objection is about, “protecting the millions of people who’ve become more vulnerable to hate crimes as a result of such language.”

Yes. Many who’ve never had to deal with the consequences of such rhetoric think objecting to the President’s racism is about “political correctness.”

Really, it’s about protecting the millions of people who’ve become more vulnerable to hate crimes as a result of such language. https://t.co/WOgrUDrrta

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) March 23, 2020

Meanwhile there are Trump supporters being attacked at an alarming rate as well, for merely supporting their preferred political candidate. One could say that AOC and others’ rhetoric has led to them being attacked as well.

.@ASUPolice are still looking for the leftist who threatened our chapter @sft_asu.

In the past week, the attacks on Trump supporters have ramped up.

From a Florida GOP tent being run over, to a young Trump supporter being attacked – #TDS is apparent. pic.twitter.com/uGbc3jSehk

— Students For Trump (@TrumpStudents) February 14, 2020

The reality is there are many people who have a reason to be upset in this country and to assume that just because someone says something you disagree with, they have never experienced hatred is patently absurd at this point.