{"id":115338,"date":"2019-02-01T17:22:55","date_gmt":"2019-02-01T21:22:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=115338"},"modified":"2019-02-01T17:25:12","modified_gmt":"2019-02-01T21:25:12","slug":"ocasio-now-shes-acknowledged-her-privilege-being-cisengered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=115338","title":{"rendered":"OCASIO: Now she’s acknowledged her ‘privilege’ being ‘cisengered’"},"content":{"rendered":"

OCASIO-CORTEZ: I ACKNOWLEDGE MY \u2018PRIVILEGE\u2019 IN BEING BORN \u2018CISGENDERED\u2019<\/h1>\n

\u2018That is a privilege I have no matter how poor my family was when I was born\u2019<\/h3>\n

By Tom Elliott
\nGrabien.com<\/p>\n

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OCASIO-CORTEZ: \u201cThey\u2019re like, and we need to \u2014 you know, they say discrimination or unfair incarceration of black men, and then they pause and the crowd cheers, and it\u2019s like, in their mind, they\u2019re like \u2018you\u2019re welcome\u2019 for acknowledging it. And it\u2019s like, okay, acknowledging racism is a really big step. It\u2019s a really big step from where we were. But you\u2019re right, it\u2019s nowhere near enough and the solutions are so painful. Frankly, I find it \u2014 I find the solutions for white communities to be very painful because it\u2019s very painful for a community to understand and have go through this \u2014 like, you can be \u2014 the idea that you can be poor and benefit from the color of your skin does not compute for a lot of people. And going through that realization is very painful or even just economically for people that were born with silver spoons. It\u2019s very painful to admit that you had advantages and it\u2019s just \u2014 \u201c<\/p>\n

GRIM: \u201cLook what happened to Brett Kavanaugh when he was confronted. He melted down in front of the whole country.\u201d<\/p>\n

OCASIO-CORTEZ: \u201cOh my God \u2014 it literally is an identity meltdown, it\u2019s a fundamental \u2014 \u201c<\/p>\n

GRIM: \u201cI worked for everything I ever had.\u201d<\/p>\n

OCASIO-CORTEZ: \u201cYeah. And, like, that is the majority of a lot of communities, how a lot of communities feel. And it\u2019s because, if you haven\u2019t had a transition in your life where, you know, you were maybe born poor or born without certain privileges and then especially as you transition into having certain privileges in your life, you actually see and feel and sense and taste and smell all of the differences. If you\u2019ve never experienced different treatment in your life, you wouldn\u2019t know what different treatment feels like or looks like. And it\u2019s really, really hard. I mean, it\u2019s like \u2014 and we can all, almost every single person in this country can acknowledge some privilege of some of some type, you know. I\u2019m a cisgendered woman. I will never know the trauma of feeling like I\u2019m not born in the right body. And that is a privilege that I have, no matter how poor my family was when I was born. But it\u2019s really hard for some people to admit that they \u2014 you know, it\u2019s part of this weird American Dream mythology that we have, that for a lot of \u2014 in a lot of circumstances isn\u2019t as true or isn\u2019t as clearly communicated as we\u2019d like for it, or we wish it was.\u201d<\/p>\n

GRAY: \u201cYeah, I\u2019m working on it maybe. Maybe next piece on privileged dialogues on how to make it more constructive.\u201d<\/p>\n

GRIM: \u201cLook forward to that one.\u201d<\/p>\n

GRAY: \u201cMy mentions don\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n

OCASIO-CORTEZ: \u201cIt\u2019s hard. I don\u2019t envy you.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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