{"id":626487,"date":"2021-08-09T16:07:56","date_gmt":"2021-08-09T20:07:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=626487"},"modified":"2021-08-09T16:07:57","modified_gmt":"2021-08-09T20:07:57","slug":"aoc-claims-misogyny-and-racism-motivated-capitol-riot-says-she-feared-being-raped-because-white-supremacy-and-patriarchy-are-very-linked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/aoc-claims-misogyny-and-racism-motivated-capitol-riot-says-she-feared-being-raped-because-white-supremacy-and-patriarchy-are-very-linked\/","title":{"rendered":"AOC Claims \u2018Misogyny\u2019 And \u2018Racism\u2019 Motivated Capitol Riot, Says She Feared Being Raped Because \u2018White Supremacy And Patriarchy Are Very Linked\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">42<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Faoc-claims-misogyny-and-racism-motivated-capitol-riot-says-she-feared-being-raped-because-white-supremacy-and-patriarchy-are-very-linked%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=626487&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/AOC-2-scaled-1.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) told CNN\u2019s Dana Bash that she feared being raped during the January 6th Capitol riot because \u201cwhite supremacy and patriarchy are very linked\u201d and that \u201cdeeply rooted\u201d misogyny and racism motivated the Capitol attackers.<\/p>\n<p>Ocasio-Cortez has claimed, in the past, that she feared for her life during the January 6th riot at the United States Capitol, which closely followed a rally in support of President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p>Ocasio-Cortez was not in the U.S. Capitol building proper during the riot, though she was in the Rayburn House Office Building on the Capitol campus, separated from the Capitol building by a road on the surface and a subway underground. Capitol Police told Ocasio-Cortez and her staff to remain in their offices during the incident. A Republican colleague, Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) later said that she was \u201ctwo doors down\u201d from Ocasio-Cortez and that \u201cinsurrectionists never stormed our hallway.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After Ocasio-Cortez was confronted for \u201cexaggerating\u201d her experience, <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/02\/04\/aoc-blasted-for-exaggerating-capitol-riot-experience\/\">the New York Post noted<\/a>, she fired back, insisting that she was near enough to the action to warrant fear.<\/p>\n<p>Ocasio-Cortez, however, insists that she feared for her life during the Capitol riots, and, speaking to Dana Bash, revealed that she also feared being sexually violated.<\/p>\n<p>In a clip for an extensive interview, set to air Monday night, Bash asks Ocasio-Cortez, \u201cYou didn\u2019t only think you were going to die, you thought you were going to be raped?\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">\u201cYeah, I thought I was,\u201d Ocasio-Cortez responds.<\/p>\n<p>Although she did not elaborate on what inspired that fear directly, Ocasio-Cortez told Bash that the fear of sexual violence was related to how \u201cwhite supremacy\u201d and the \u201cpatriarchy\u201d intermingle.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhite supremacy and patriarchy are very linked in a lot of ways,\u201d she said. \u201cThere\u2019s a lot of sexualizing of that violence and I didn\u2019t think that I was just going to be killed, I thought other things were going to happen to me as well.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She then went on to dissect the philosophy she feels motivated the January 6th attack, and, it seems, defend her reaction.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne of the reasons why that impact was so doubled that day is because of the misogyny and the racism that is so deeply rooted, and animated that attack on the Capitol,\u201d Ocasio-Cortez added.<\/p>\n<p>Although it is not unusual to hear the January 6th riots labeled \u201cwhite supremacist,\u201d Ocasio-Cortez is not the first to suggest the riots were also sexist.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt wasn\u2019t just masculinity, or entitlement, or supremacy. It was all of it&nbsp;that made the Capitol attack possible and often allows us to&nbsp;overlook the quieter attacks on our everyday lives,\u201d a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/life\/health-wellness\/2021\/01\/12\/capitol-riot-triggering-women-watching-white-male-supremacy\/6637329002\/\">professor of sociology told USA Today<\/a> at the time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWatching these images are triggering for people who experience the everyday violence of white male supremacy, whether that\u2019s Black men who are patrolled by white police officers on the street or women who feel threatened by white men in their spaces on a daily basis,\u201d the professor added. \u201cIt\u2019s a reminder of the everyday stresses that come with living in a world that\u2019s shaped by white masculinity and that your wellness comes second to their expressions of dominance, which they see as their right.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><i>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><i>member<\/i><\/a><i>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) told CNN\u2019s Dana Bash that she feared being raped during the January 6th Capitol riot because \u201cwhite supremacy and patriarchy are very linked\u201d and that \u201cdeeply &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-626487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=626487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626487\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=626487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=626487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=626487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}