She literally pulled a Hillary Clinton': Critics mock Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez for 'affecting an accent' while speaking to a mostly black audience in New York
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez seemed to slip into an accent during speech on Friday
Her critics pounced, calling the accent 'fake' and cringe-worthy
AOC spoke at Al Sharpton's National Action Network in New York on Friday
She defended her accent as natural saying 'I am from the Bronx'
“White liberals tend to present themselves as less competent when speaking to minorities — while conservatives do not, according to a new study from Yale University scheduled to be published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.
“Most Whites, particularly socio-political liberals, now endorse racial equality. Archival and experimental research reveals a subtle but reliable ironic consequence: White liberals self-present less competence to minorities than to other Whites — that is, they patronize minorities stereotyped as lower status and less competent,” says the study, written by Yale professor Cydney Dupree.
Dupree analyzed the speech patterns of liberal and conservative presidential campaign speeches to pinpoint how often they used words that signified “warmth” and “competence.”
Read more here: https://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/national/article222424675.html#storylink=cpy”
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez seemed to slip into an accent during speech on Friday
Her critics pounced, calling the accent 'fake' and cringe-worthy
AOC spoke at Al Sharpton's National Action Network in New York on Friday
She defended her accent as natural saying 'I am from the Bronx'
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6893157/Critics-mock-Alexandria-Ocasio-Cortez-affecting-accent.html