Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez recorded a raw and revealing video earlier this week pointing out how she thought she was going to die during the deadly siege on Capitol Hill. In the video, she also said she was a sexual assault survivor and likened some lawmakers to “abusers:”
“These folks who tell us to move on, that it’s not a big deal, that we should forget what’s happened… These are the same tactics of abusers.“
How low can they go? Some people who watched her video piled on. Some even questioned whether she was at the Capitol during the siege on January 6th. Most of the people who lobbed the false allegations aren’t worth mentioning, but then a female colleague weighed in, shooting down Ocasio-Cortez’s account of the terrifying day. Rep. Nancy Mace, a freshman Republican from South Carolina wrote, “I’m two doors down from @aoc and no insurrectionists stormed our hallway..” And she linked to an article from Fox News that said, “AOC faces backlash as critics point out she wasn’t in Capitol building during riot.” She also put up this tweet, again questioning the New York Congresswoman’s story.
Here’s how Ocasio-Cortez responded.
AOC went on to write:
“All I can think of w/ folks like her dishonestly claiming that survivors are exaggerating are the stories of veterans and survivors in my community who deny themselves care they need & deserve bc they internalize voices like hers saying what they went through “wasn’t bad enough… This is where the true damage of what @NancyMace is doing comes in. How many survivors are watching her? Who now, seeing her, won’t get care or will feel further shame or silence? Who won’t speak up bc they know there are voices in leadership ready to minimize their experiences?”
Mace is understandably under fire for her remarks, with many people realizing that her story has changed a lot over the last month.
Hi Congresswoman someone seems to have hacked your account. https://t.co/4WEJQPuhU6
— Jamison Foser (@jamisonfoser) February 4, 2021