Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez reignited her Twitter feud with Rep. Liz Cheney on Monday, claiming it was the Wyoming congresswoman who “directly and explicitly compared concentration camps on our border to the Holocaust” — and that Republicans pushed the idea “for the explicit purpose of eliciting and manipulating pain for political fear.”
“If you doubt it, here’s the original tweet,” said Ocasio-Cortez in a post linking back to Cheney’s initial verbal jab.
“Please @AOC do us all a favor and spend just a few minutes learning some actual history,” Cheney wrote on June 18. “Six million Jews were exterminated in the Holocaust. You demean their memory and disgrace yourself with comments like this.”
Ocasio-Cortez on Monday said, “Reminder: the member who directly + explicitly compared concentration camps on our border to the Holocaust was *Liz Cheney.* The horrors of the Holocaust went beyond the use of concentration camps, yet camps were part of the process. They have also been used before and after.”
The New York lawmaker later added, “This is a deliberate, intentional, wild jump made by Republicans (frankly, often) for the explicit purpose of eliciting + manipulating pain for political purposes. Meanwhile, kids are still dying.”
Ocasio-Cortez’s “concentration camp” comments came during an Instagram Live video last week.
“The US is running concentration camps on our southern border, and that is exactly what they are,” the congresswoman said. “If that doesn’t bother you … I want to talk to the people that are concerned enough with humanity to say that ‘never again’ means something.”
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Countless people called out Ocasio-Cortez for her statements, including the US Holocaust Memorial Museum on Monday.
“The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum unequivocally rejects efforts to create analogies between the Holocaust and other events, whether historical or contemporary,” the museum said in a statement.
The congresswoman tried explaining herself in a series of tweets, saying: “And for the shrieking Republicans who don’t know the difference: concentration camps are not the same as death camps. Concentration camps are considered by experts as ‘the mass detention of civilians without trial.’ And that’s exactly what this administration is doing.”
Calling Cheney out by name, Ocasio-Cortez said: “Hey Rep. Cheney, since you’re so eager to ‘educate me,’ I’m curious: What do YOU call building mass camps of people being detained without a trial? How would you dress up DHS’s mass separation of thousands children at the border from their parents?”
Cheney had yet to respond to Ocasio-Cortez’s latest tweets as of 5:30 p.m. Monday.
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