Ocasio-Cortez condemns college Republicans' email calling her a domestic terrorist

[nitpicker]

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/apr/10/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-college-republicans-domestic-terrorist

Ocasio-Cortez condemns college Republicans' email calling her a domestic terrorist

Tom McCarthy in New York

Thu 11 Apr 2019 02.15 BST Last modified on Thu 11 Apr 2019 03.01 BST

A fundraising email sent by a college Republican group branding the US representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez as a “domestic terrorist” drew a sharp rebuke from the congresswoman, who warned that similar rhetorical attacks had in the past resulted in a spike in death threats against her.

An email sent on Tuesday by Tom Ferrall, chairman of the Ohio Federation of College Republicans, bore the subject line “AOC is a domestic terrorist” and asked recipients to donate to his group. Dave Levinthal, an editor at the Center for Public Integrity, on Wednesday afternoon shared a screenshot of the email on Twitter.
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“This puts me in danger every time,” tweeted Ocasio-Cortez, the 29-year-old freshman congresswoman whose outspoken progressive views, youth, nimble social media presence and all-around star power yet perhaps do not explain the extent to which she has become a bugbear for the right.

“Almost every time this uncalled for rhetoric gets blasted by conserv. grps,” she tweeted, “we get a spike in death threats to refer to Capitol Police.”
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[malaise]

1. That's what they want

There are more domestic terrorists among ReTHUGs than we can count

[Mc Mike]

2. Then the same young repugs invite Richard Spencer to speak on campus.

It's free speech for their nazi to speak, but how dare an elected Dem say something they don't like?

They know they're nazis, and know they're full of shit.

[irisblue]

3. Hiw am I not suprised, Ohio College Republicans

[gordianot]

4. I would take it an honor to have Republicans hate me.

I have to settle for ignorant relatives.

[watoos]

5. Except that no one gets more death threats,

than AOC and Omar. These young fascists are loading the gun of some crazy Nazi.

By the way, AOC and Omar get plenty of criticism here on DU, not nearly as bad as what the young Republicans did but still, just saying.

[gordianot]

7. Yes it seems when people disagree with you the current fashion of the RW is to make threats.

When faced with the blatant evil of domestic fascism I withhold all criticism of fellow Democrats. As to the relative who made a threat to my face I gave him time to leave and explained I am not a pacifist. At least so far it seems the crimes done in the name of Trump have not been pardoned. If domestic Republicans hate you, you must be doing something right.

[TheBlackAdder]

6. Figures, the best university in Ohio is #42 in the country and it goes downhill fast.

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[gratuitous]

8. In a way, the death threats at least help to identify the terrorists who might go off

It's the ones who don't send death threats via Facebook or leave voice mails with their name and address who are the one to really worry about.