Read on Twitter
When I was younger, I grew up around these white guys who absolutely hated the way Black, Puerto Rican and Mexican girls would pop their gum when they chewed it.
1/
1/
These guys wouldn't say anything to them but once those girls left, these dudes would explode with anger. At first, I just thought these guys had a pet peeve. But, as we got older, their real problem with these girls emerged.
2/
2/
What the guys really hated was how these girls would get loud, how they didn't hesitate to speak their minds or express a strong opinion or cut somebody off if they felt slighted.
3/
3/
Most of all, these guys hated it when the girls disagreed with them and weren't shy about it. And the only time these guys would really speak up is when the girls would talk about anything related to racism.
4/
4/
They'd go on and on about how these girls didn't know what they were talking about. And, almost every time, the girls would get qualified as "ghetto" and somehow that distinction meant the girls didn't know what they were talking about.
5/
5/
What I came to realize was what these guys really hated was the confidence these girls had. The gum popping, to the white guys, was a symptom of what they considered to be the real problem: someone who didn't know their place.
6/
6/
So, every time some dude in the GOP lobbies an attack on AOC, Ilhan Omar or Rashida Tlaib, I'm reminded of those white guys I grew up with.
/END https://thehill.com/homenews/house/508259-ocaasio-cortez-accosted-by-gop-lawmaker-over-remarks-that-kind-of
/END https://thehill.com/homenews/house/508259-ocaasio-cortez-accosted-by-gop-lawmaker-over-remarks-that-kind-of
