Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York deleted her preferred pronouns from her profile following President-elect Donald Trump’s election victory, and now she’s denying the decision was motivated by politics.
The popular Libs of TikTok account was the first to point out the change, posting a screenshot of her account of AOC’s account with the “she/her” designation and a later screenshot without them.
Some interpreted Ocasio-Cortez’s removal of her pronouns to be pulling back from supporting the extremist LGBTQ+ agenda.
Riley Gaines wrote on X: “They’ll pretend they never embraced (or even celebrated) the insanity. Don’t forget who the compliant, virtue-signaling sheep were.”
Days later, she denied the allegations in a post on social media and offered a bizarre explanation.
“The whole ‘story’ of removing pronouns after the election is fake,” AOC wrote.
“It happened a long time ago after the SCOTUS Twitter ruling meant I had to add the ‘personal acct’ disclosure. There weren’t enough chars so I had to swap the end. You can run the timeline to see for yourself,” she added.
What she means is that she had to disclose that her X account with the handle “AOC” is different from her Representative account, which has the handle @RepAOC.
But this makes no sense, as the RepAOC account also doesn’t have pronouns listed, and her bio reads “This account is maintained by federal staff to share services and legislation relevant to constituents of NY-14.” This is far fewer words than the maximum allowed for a bio on X, meaning she could fit pronouns on that account.
Similarly, she could’ve continued keeping the pronouns on her personal account simply by shortening her bio. She only needs to remove seven letters from her bio to fit pronouns – and it’s not a tough bio to shorten.
Many on the left accused Ocasio-Cortez of slowly moving away from wokeism and trying to join the party’s centrist establishment to retain her influence.
We really couldn’t blame her. In a few years, her entire X profile could be used as an historic artefact to show how deeply embedded those on the left where to an absurd ideology.
AOC likely knows this, and she’s quietly getting ahead before her political career ends up in ruins.
We’ll soon find out.
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