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2019 Apr 6, 6:03am   805 views  4 comments

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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'

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6893157/Critics-mock-Alexandria-Ocasio-Cortez-affecting-accent.html

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2   Shaman   2019 Apr 8, 7:43am  

She’s just operating from the Democrat’s play book!
Check out this Yale study...
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/national/article222424675.html

“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”

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