Some critiques are too easy, and that is often the case with AOC.
It tells you something awful about our elite universities that she graduated from Boston University with two degrees: one in international relations and the other in economics.
She knows nothing about either.
Being a politician whose main appeal, aside from her appealing looks, is an ability to perform to a crowd of leftists, AOC obviously couldn’t pass up an invitation to speak at a Muslim Eid celebration along with Mayor Zohran Mamdani.
Damn! She just let herself be the useful idiot she is! https://t.co/XDyEbIpFS5
— ElBigote (@DonElBigote) May 29, 2026
While I don’t, in principle, object to politicians respectfully adopting traditions for the sake of their audience, there is something especially bizarre about AOC, a truly radical feminist, wearing a hijab to speak in front of a crowd that appears to be exclusively male, and largely uninterested in what she has to say.
Hello @AOC, while you smiled in a hijab at a New York event, I was in Federal Court facing the 4th hitman hired by the Islamic Republic to assassinate me, for campaigning for Iranian women to have the same freedom you performed for a photo op. Will you come to court with me in… pic.twitter.com/25mEGcdQ9d
— Masih Alinejad 🏳️ (@AlinejadMasih) May 28, 2026
She has unconsciously adopted the traditions of a culture that respects women even less than the one portrayed in The Handmaid’s Tale—you know, that horror that Donald Trump is supposedly bringing about in the United States with the help of the docile women who surround him and the openly gay men in prominent administration positions.
Muslim men seen talking over hijab-clad AOC and IGNORING her as she addressed Eid celebration in NYC https://t.co/sf5gw4lM7c
— Daily Mail (@DailyMail) May 29, 2026
All the men around her, with the exception of Mamdani himself, are dressed like the Afghan Taliban, so obviously rejecting the Western society that has welcomed them. AOC spends an inordinate amount of time condemning people who have no intention of oppressing women, but when given the chance, she embraces a crowd that is filled with people who do.
An all-male crowd, from the look of it, except for a woman who likely is either the mayor’s or AOC’s staffer.
While AOC was preaching “solidarity” in her hijab, the male-only crowd ignored her and spoke over her: pic.twitter.com/kyiOo9XZ2p
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) May 29, 2026
One of the more bizarre things about leftists is their inverse bigotry regarding brown and black people. They so obviously expect them to behave like savages that they excuse behavior that they would never tolerate in white people. They spout out excuses, trot out claims of oppression, and claim that any bad behavior is caused by white oppression.
Next time for fun wear one of these and attend a Taliban lashing event, you f…ing moron.
By the way, the Eid you were celebrating is about slaughtering animals for sacrifice to god, nothing fun or noble in that.
How stupid left has gone in this country. pic.twitter.com/eio8289vHv— Jubin Phoenix ژوبین (@phoenix_memoir) May 29, 2026
It’s absurd. It’s the same thinking that leads liberals to lower academic standards for non-whites, or for all students, to level the playing field. The assumption is that non-whites or non-Asians are naturally inferior, not that their culture is equivalent to ours.
Everybody should be held to the same high standards, and at least the majority of all groups certainly have the capacity to meet them. But only if they are held accountable. That’s why Catholic schools with majority minority student bodies perform far better than public schools.
By agreeing to speak to a crowd that treats her as an inferior, and praising them as model citizens, AOC is endorsing in Muslims behavior that she decries in Westerners. This isn’t respecting cultures—after all, white racists who treat women badly could make the same argument that it is their culture, and nobody finds that argument compelling.
It’s setting low standards for non-whites. If that really is their culture, then it sucks, and we should say so. Because that is our culture.
This reminds me of the entirely appropriate response of General Sir Charles Napier to the tradition of burning a widow in India:
“Be it so. This burning of widows is your custom; prepare the funeral pile. But my nation has also a custom. When men burn women alive we hang them, and confiscate all their property. My carpenters shall therefore erect gibbets on which to hang all concerned when the widow is consumed. Let us all act according to national customs.”
If something is immoral, it is immoral.
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