Apparently AOCDS is 2019's TDS.
This poast is so insanely derp-worthy that I'm coming out of hibernation to make a few points. Let's go to the tape....
The author's statement above, which you apparently swallowed whole, is deliberately misleading. It understates the numerator by using results from the primaries where voter turnout is notoriously low. It also rounds her 16,898 votes down to 16,000 when most reasonable people would round it up to 17,000. The far bigger sin is that it grossly inflates the denominator by using the total number of residents in her district, as if that's in any way relevant. The only statistic that matters is the number of registered voters in her district. That
number happens to be 320,732 or less than half of the number cited by the author. Oops.
So to recap, voter turnout for NY's 14th District Primaries was 29,778 out of 320,732 voters or only about 9.2%. AOC garnered
16,898 votes or 56.7% of the primary vote. The general election saw
141,122 votes cast (44.0% voter turnout) and AOC won 110,318 or 78.2% of those votes. But sure, let's quote 3% because math is hard and stuff.
Just when I thought the article couldn't get worse, it did: "How in the world does a Hispanic person end up with a surname that includes Cortez?"
Tell me, how many Latinos do you know who have a Nahuatl name? A Quechuan name? A Carib name? A Guarani name? This is like saying Cam Johnson isn't "self-aware" because his ancestors took the name of their slave owners. It also completely ignores the fact that many people living in Puerto Rico, like all of Latin America, are descended from Iberians. She could very well be a descendant of Hernan Cortes, for all we know.
But it's his comparison to Nazis (please mark the Godwin's Law square on your bingo card) that takes the cake. Never mind the Nazis embraced systematic genocide while the Spanish and Portuguese actually tried to assimilate the indigenous cultures of the Americas. He's on a roll.
It's slightly terrifying that you think an 1,800-word essay is long. It's completely terrifying that you think an essay containing the phrases "Rectal Carbon-Dioxide Expeller" and "Can Hyphen even
count that high?" is good.
For the record, I have no love for AOC. I think she's incredibly naive and her policies are potentially disastrous. I'm just saying this is a terrible ****ing article and you should be embarrassed for sharing it here.
