AOC Alleges That These Three Forces Invoked The January 6 Capitol Incident

By Steeve Strange • August 9, 2021 7:40 pm

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D) told CNN that she feared being raped during the January 6th Capitol riot. She blamed “white supremacy,” “misogyny,” and “racism,” invoked and motivated the incident.

Ocasio-Cortez has already stated that she was afraid for her life during the brawl at the US Capitol on January 6th, which occurred shortly after a demonstration in support of President Donald Trump.

During the incident, Ocasio-Cortez was not in the United States Capitol building, but she was in the Rayburn House Office Building on the Capitol grounds, which is separated from the Capitol building by a road on the surface and a subway beneath. During the incident, Capitol Police advised Ocasio-Cortez and her staff to remain in their offices.

After the New York Post confronted Ocasio-Cortez for “exaggerating” her experience, she fired back, insisting that she was near enough to the action.

Ocasio-Cortez says that she was afraid for her life during the Capitol riots, and she also disclosed to Dana Bash that she was afraid of being raped.

In an interview preview, Bash asks Ocasio-Cortez, “You didn’t only think you were going to die, you thought you were going to be raped?”

“Yeah, I thought I was,” Ocasio-Cortez responded.

"I didn't think that I was just going to be killed," Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said about being barricaded inside her office during the Capitol insurrection on January 6. "I thought other things were going to happen to me as well." https://t.co/umYuQrR2Uq

— CNN (@CNN) August 9, 2021

Ocasio-Cortez told Bash that the fear of sexual assault was tied to how “white supremacy” and “patriarchy” intersect. She did not explain what motivated that dread.

“White supremacy and patriarchy are very linked in a lot of ways,” she said. “There’s a lot of sexualizing of that violence and I didn’t think that I was just going to be killed, I thought other things were going to happen to me as well.”

“One of the reasons why that impact was so doubled that day is because of the misogyny and the racism that is so deeply rooted, and animated that attack on the Capitol,” Ocasio-Cortez added.

“It wasn’t just masculinity, or entitlement, or supremacy. It was all of it that made the Capitol attack possible and often allows us to overlook the quieter attacks on our everyday lives,” a sociology professor told USA Today at the time.

“Watching these images are triggering for people who experience the everyday violence of white male supremacy, whether that’s Black men who are patrolled by white police officers on the street or women who feel threatened by white men in their spaces on a daily basis,” the professor quipped. “It’s a reminder of the everyday stresses that come with living in a world that’s shaped by white masculinity and that your wellness comes second to their expressions of dominance, which they see as their right.”

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