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I mean... if you want to try and claim that AOC hasn't been harassed, that's fine. But I don't think anyone is going to take you seriously, no matter your definition of racism or misogyny. I decided to go AOC's twitter page and view the replies to the first tweet I saw, I scrolled past 8 replies before I found the following

>How does it feel to know that in 2 weeks you will be voted out? What a loser you are. The People of NY hate you. After you lose the election, you should disappear forever. Go to Puerto Rico fix you abuelas roof and stay living there

Now, I personally think the racist trope of "go back to where you came from" is pretty obvious. I also think that the fact that I can find such comments so easily is fairly telling. But let's ignore that and just point out that people have literally been jailed for harassing AOC and sending her death threats.

So let's back up, you can make a judgement about the extent to which you value free speech, but you have to do that grounded in reality.

>>Silver+(OP)
See if that is your definition of "harassment" then we have widely different definition as I find that comment neither racist nor harassment

it is harsh sure, but if that comment falls outside your bounds of "acceptable" speech then your Overton window is VERY VERY NARROW

>>phpist+Dc
Yeah see I think you've sort of painted yourself into a corner with this, where the only way of defending your position is to pretend something obviously true isn't true. If you're going to define racism in a way that excludes comments that are so well established that they have wikipedia pages about them[1] and are literally listed in the category "Racism in the United States", then I think you've effectively said there's nothing that could possibly be said that is racist.

[1]:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go_back_to_where_you_came_from

[2]:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Racism_in_the_United_...

>>Silver+6k
No, you are reading into that comment the "Go back where you came from" intent that simply is not there unless you go into looking for that.

No where did the person say "Go back where you come from", can you read it that you if you want to sure. but I can (and do) read it in other ways.

This is part of the problem where everyone sees every comment as a "dog whistle" to racism. Sorry I reject that reading

>>phpist+4m
The quote is literally

>Go to Puerto Rico fix you abuelas roof and stay living there

I don't think it's a leap to relate that to go back where you came from, and I don't think other people think that either - since the wikipedia page literally cites as an example of this racist trope.... Donald Trump saying

>Why don't they go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came...

Who did he say that in reference to? AOC.

So it's not really a leap is it. But what I'm interested in, is that you claim to read a different meaning into this, so be specific, what do you think the person posting in reply to AOC meant by that?