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Controversy over ad shows picture of AOC burning

Stevicus

Veteran Member
Staff member
Premium Member

Burning AOC ad during Democratic debate sparks outrage

An advertisement showing the image of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez bursting into flames aired during ABC's Democratic debate in Houston on Thursday, prompting a heated response from viewers.

The 30-second ad, from a Republican-affiliated PAC named New Faces GOP, features its founder Elizabeth Heng, a former GOP congressional candidate in California, warning about liberal politicians who embrace socialism.

"This is the face of socialism and ignorance," Heng says as a photo of Ocasio-Cortez catches fire and burns away to show harrowing images from the Cambodian Civil War in the 1970s from which her father fled.

"Does Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez know the horrors of socialism?” Heng continues. “My father was minutes from death in Cambodia before a forced marriage saved his life. That’s socialism: Forced obedience. Starvation. Mine is a face of freedom. My skin is not white. I’m not outrageous, racist, nor socialist. I’m a Republican."

Ocaso-Cortez took to Twitter to react to the ad.

"Republicans are running TV ads setting pictures of me on fire to convince people they aren’t racist. Life is weird!" Ocasio-Cortez wrote. "Know that this wasn’t an ad for young conservatives of color - that was the pretense. What you just watched was a love letter to the GOP’s white supremacist case."

This is like some kind of alternate reality.
 

Cooky

Veteran Member
"Know that this wasn’t an ad for young conservatives of color - that was the pretense. What you just watched was a love letter to the GOP’s white supremacist case."

The PAC "New Faces" is white supremacist? o_O

~or~

A love letter to a white supremacist "case"?

OAC doesn't even make sense... How can you write a love letter to a case?
 
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Stanyon

WWMRD?
Here is my official mailing from "friends of AOC" The bold is mine Love the "Republicans are running TV ads setting pictures of me on fire to convince people they aren't racist" bit.


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Did you see this during the Democratic debate??

Republicans are so afraid of the power of our movement that they bought a prime-time ad during the Democratic debate and lit a picture of AOC on fire during it.
We’re not intimidated. We won’t back down. In under a year, we’ve fundamentally reshaped the conversation around the climate crisis, money in politics, and so much more.
Send a message that you stand with AOC, and donate $3 to join our small-dollar movement. Our entire campaign runs on small donations from people like you — not billionaires, not big companies, and not corporate PACs.
Pa'lante,
Team AOC"

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And all the while I thought this was supposed to be the contrived controversy of the week, the dress that supposedly mocked 9/11 victims with a stitching that some idiots claimed looked like a plane crashing into a tower. The amazing thing is it actually made the news.
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Stanyon

WWMRD?
Lol, yep itś all racist. Her stupid outlandish positions had nothing to do with it.
Burn baby burn !

She's young and idealistic and most likely trustingly opened her mind in college all bright eyed and bushy tailed and allowed left leaning professors take a giant dump on her brain.
 

sun rise

The world is on fire
Premium Member
More utter BS about socialism from the fanatics on the right. The face of the right are kids in cages, people dying from lack of health care, the orange-faced degenerate in the White House, Moscow Mitch and piles of bodies due to the unbridled lust for gun sales to those who should not have them.

The face of the right is anti-semitism, white racism and bigotry.

The face of the right are lies, lack of honor, dirty deals, lust for power with no restraint, hate for what the US stands for.

That is the face of the right
 

Ouroboros

Coincidentia oppositorum
I don't agree with AOC's politics, and I doubt the ad had any racist intentions considering it was a Vietnamese candidate's ad (if I understand it right), but even so, it was very distasteful to burn someone's face on TV. ABC should not have aired it. It's still a form of hate speech towards a person, even if it's not necessarily her race. What's the next level? Shooting people on TV?
 

metis

aged ecumenical anthropologist
Isn't it sorta weird that so many of the Trump supporters get nasty with her while continually excusing President Nasty himself by saying things like "Well, that's just Trump being Trump". :emojconfused:
 

Stanyon

WWMRD?
I don't agree with AOC's politics, and I doubt the ad had any racist intentions considering it was a Vietnamese candidate's ad (if I understand it right), but even so, it was very distasteful to burn someone's face on TV. ABC should not have aired it. It's still a form of hate speech towards a person, even if it's not necessarily her race. What's the next level? Shooting people on TV?

Hanging or burning political opponents in effigy has a long tradition in many countries
 

Ouroboros

Coincidentia oppositorum
Hanging or burning political opponents in effigy has a long tradition in many countries
So that makes it right? Some countries kill their opponents, but that doesn't mean that's how it should be done. It's disgusting, wherever or whoever does it.
 

Twilight Hue

Twilight, not bright nor dark, good nor bad.
Here is my official mailing from "friends of AOC" The bold is mine Love the "Republicans are running TV ads setting pictures of me on fire to convince people they aren't racist" bit.



Ocasio2018_Logo_BLACK_Full_name__Democrat.png

Did you see this during the Democratic debate??

Republicans are so afraid of the power of our movement that they bought a prime-time ad during the Democratic debate and lit a picture of AOC on fire during it.
We’re not intimidated. We won’t back down. In under a year, we’ve fundamentally reshaped the conversation around the climate crisis, money in politics, and so much more.
Send a message that you stand with AOC, and donate $3 to join our small-dollar movement. Our entire campaign runs on small donations from people like you — not billionaires, not big companies, and not corporate PACs.

Pa'lante,
Team AOC"

tenor.gif


And all the while I thought this was supposed to be the contrived controversy of the week, the dress that supposedly mocked 9/11 victims with a stitching that some idiots claimed looked like a plane crashing into a tower. The amazing thing is it actually made the news.
Z0Z2NmpwUXhWTGN4OVFUWjRGQm8ucG5n.jpg






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And therein lays the plug. Typical socialist Democrat always finding ways to grab more money out of people.

It can't be, dare I say it , a slush fund?

AOC’s chief of staff ran $1M slush fund by diverting campaign cash to his own companies
 

Revoltingest

Pragmatic Libertarian
Premium Member
I don't agree with AOC's politics, and I doubt the ad had any racist intentions considering it was a Vietnamese candidate's ad....
How could the ad be racist?
AOC is as white as I am.
And does being Vietnamese mean one cannot be racist?

I heard Andrew Yang on NPR the other day say that it
would be "a little bit racist" to call him socialist. Really.
Is "socialism" a race....or does he believe that socialism
is associated with being Asian? Tell that to Marx & Stalin.

Btw, if anyone disagrees with me.....you're RACIST!
 

Ouroboros

Coincidentia oppositorum
How could the ad be racist?
AOC is as white as I am.
And does being Vietnamese mean one cannot be racist?
Agree. I didn't see the ad being racist, however, I do think it was in bad taste. Essentially, the ad is suggesting that AOC will create a totalitarian society where people are killed and having mass graves, but by burning her face wasn't necessary. It essentially suggests that we should burn socialists because they would create a dangerous society where the government kills people. It creates a bit of a contradiction.

I heard Andrew Yang on NPR the other day say that it
would be "a little bit racist" to call him socialist. Really.
Is "socialism" a race....or does he believe that socialism
is associated with being Asian? Tell that to Marx & Stalin.

Btw, if anyone disagrees with me.....you're RACIST!
yeah. The whole "racist" spiel is becoming racist in itself, isn't it? We also have something called "micro aggression" which is also a whole 'nother annoying chapter.
 

Stevicus

Veteran Member
Staff member
Premium Member
I don't agree with AOC's politics, and I doubt the ad had any racist intentions considering it was a Vietnamese candidate's ad (if I understand it right), but even so, it was very distasteful to burn someone's face on TV. ABC should not have aired it.

I believe she was Cambodian, not Vietnamese.

What's the next level? Shooting people on TV?

They've been doing that since the days of the Lone Ranger.
 

Stevicus

Veteran Member
Staff member
Premium Member
It's interesting that this person is complaining about socialism in Cambodia, but doesn't say a word about French colonialism (capitalist), Japanese nationalism (capitalist), or US imperialism (capitalist) - all of which had a severely negative impact upon her ancestral homeland. All of those other atrocities get a free pass, yet all she complains about is socialism.
 

Twilight Hue

Twilight, not bright nor dark, good nor bad.
It's interesting that this person is complaining about socialism in Cambodia, but doesn't say a word about French colonialism (capitalist), Japanese nationalism (capitalist), or US imperialism (capitalist) - all of which had a severely negative impact upon her ancestral homeland. All of those other atrocities get a free pass, yet all she complains about is socialism.
Because that's what AOC is. A socialist.
 
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