Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a winner of a Democratic Congressional primary in New York, addresses supporters at a fundraiser Thursday, Aug. 2, 2018, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
In case you haven’t heard, Americans in favor of brown people being immigrants — that is, coming into the land of the free and home of the brave via its immigration system — are anti-brown-people-immigrants.
I haven’t quite been able to make sense of it yet, but that’s the word on the street.
And AOC’s chief of staff — Saikat Chakrabarti — is apparently no stranger to the street.
Therefore:
Whoa. @AOC’s chief just deleted this. pic.twitter.com/xRJphPAkwb
— Matt Whitlock (@mattdizwhitlock) June 27, 2019
The tweet was in reference to H.R.3401 — the Emergency Supplemental Appropriations for Humanitarian Assistance and Security at the Southern Border Act. It “provides $4.5 billion in FY2019 emergency supplemental appropriations to federal departments and agencies for humanitarian assistance and security to respond to migrants attempting to enter the United States at the southern border.”
After deleting his post, Saikat tried to clarify:
Absolutely right. https://t.co/wS2gpKQMWo
— Saikat Chakrabarti (@saikatc) June 27, 2019
It’s as if someone “kidnapped a bunch of children”??
Next, “concentration camps” (here, here, and here):
Can we stop calling the Blue Dog Caucus "fiscally conservative but socially liberal?" I missed the part of fiscal conservativeness or social liberalness that includes wasting $4.5 billion of taxpayer money to put kids in concentration camps.
— Saikat Chakrabarti (@saikatc) June 27, 2019
Saikat uses the word “immigrants” here, but he clearly has no intention to mean immigrants (as described at the beginning of this article):
They seem to consistently vote as a block to criminalize immigrants (though really only brown ones). What should I call that?
— Saikat Chakrabarti (@saikatc) June 27, 2019
If you’re into border laws, you’re like the KKK:
It's the exact same dynamic as the old Southern Democrats fwiw. They also weren't all Jim Crow supporters. They also felt they were representing their districts.
— Saikat Chakrabarti (@saikatc) June 27, 2019
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But the kinds of compromises we have to make right now is a block of "moderate" voters who believe that their districts will vote them out unless they criminalize more brown people. I haven't seen evidence to the contrary.
— Saikat Chakrabarti (@saikatc) June 27, 2019
Anyway I deleted the tweet since, yeah, I'm mad. But I do think if we don't have progress on racial justice it will be because of the new Dems and blue dogs. Just like in 1940.
— Saikat Chakrabarti (@saikatc) June 27, 2019
This is in reference to my comparing Blue Dogs and New Democrats to 1940s Southern Democrats. Southern Democrats enabled a racist system too. I have no idea how personally racist they all were. And we're seeing the same dynamic play out now.
— Saikat Chakrabarti (@saikatc) June 27, 2019
Ladies and gentlemen, I give you history’s highest-ranking Grand Wizard:
-ALEX
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