Title : The follow-up question Anderson Cooper should have Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez after she said "Yeah" to his "Do you believe President Trump is a racist?"
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The follow-up question Anderson Cooper should have Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez after she said "Yeah" to his "Do you believe President Trump is a racist?"
I don't think I'm seeing a full transcript to last night's "60 Minutes" (at the "60 Minutes" website), but here's the section of the interview that I'm seeing and reacting to:Anderson Cooper: You don't talk about President Trump very much."How can you say that?" is open-ended and dull, and she heard it as an invitation to serve up something that seems sort of factual.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: No.
Anderson Cooper: Why?
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: No. Because I think he's a symptom of a problem.
Anderson Cooper: What do you mean?
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: The president certainly didn't invent racism. But he's certainly given a voice to it and expanded it and created a platform for those things.
Anderson Cooper: Do you believe President Trump is a racist?
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: Yeah. Yeah. No question.
Anderson Cooper: How can you say that?
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: (CHUCKLE) When you look at the words that he uses, which are historic dog whistles of white supremacy. When you look at how he reacted to the Charlottesville incident, where neo-Nazis murdered a woman, versus how he manufactures crises like immigrants seeking legal refuge on our borders, it's— it's night and day.
Amusingly enough, she talked like Trump, with sentences that began with "When you look at...". When you look at X... what? She (like Trump) is gesturing at something and instead of detailing what's in her head, she involves us. Just look! If we look, we will connect the dots the way she does... however that it.
She referred to one occasion when Trump uttered some words, but she doesn't quote the words. We have to remember them or look them up, and she's performing the assumption that if we do that, we will understand that Trump is a racist. (For the record, what Trump said was: "We condemn in the strongest possible terms this egregious display of hatred, bigotry and violence on many sides, on many sides.")
But what I wish Cooper had asked her about is: Do you believe that racism is pervasive in America — and in human beings — and that everyone is, to some extent, racist? And: Do you think that some of the people who — unlike you — talk about Trump a lot and call him a racist are failing to face up to their own racism?
I would assume her answer would be yes. If everyone is racist, the question whether Trump is a racist is easy.
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