Post by Vince524 on Aug 6, 2019 20:30:04 GMT -5
The picture shows the group of young men wearing 'Team Mitch' shirts posing with a cutout of the progressive congresswoman from New York. One appears to be making a choking gesture toward Ocasio-Cortez's throat. Another appears to act like he's groping and kissing her.
I can't get my laptop to copy the picture, but you can see it, along with the reaction of much of the Twitterverse here.
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Pictured: seven young white men in “Team Mitch” T-shirts, gathered round a distressed looking cardboard <a href="https://twitter.com/AOC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@aoc</a>, groping and kissing her. The caption, “break me off a piece of that.”<br><br>Future federal judges of America. <a href="https://t.co/t877J7Pcye">pic.twitter.com/t877J7Pcye</a></p>— feminist next door (@emrazz) <a href="https://twitter.com/emrazz/status/1158504398164766720?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 5, 2019</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
So one kid is definitely making a choking gesture. One is planting a kiss on the cutout and has his arm around her. 3 of them simply display a thumbs down, indicating that they don't like her and/or her policies. One is kneeling and pointing, perhaps to the papers, AOC was holding in the cardboard cutout. Maybe at the other yahoos, who knows. The dude to the left is just smiling. (Or maybe it's a smirk.)
Is this picture very respectful? No. Although if you take out the choker and the kisser, what do you have? And if it was just the kisser, would that be seen different from a guy kissing a cardboard cutout of Wonder Woman, or a supermodel? The choking? Would people be making such a big deal if someone was pretending to choke Trump?
Yet now we have calls out name them, destroy their futures, kick them out of colleges they may not be old enough to appy to. They're future rapists according to many.
Are we incapable as a soiciety of seeing what could be said to be not great behavior without deciding that the kids should be blasted in every aspect of their life?
