It’s time for a dad to get involved
While everyone else was busy blaming Trump for the El Paso shooting, another tragedy was unfolding on Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Twitter feed.
Hey @senatemajldr – these young men look like they work for you.
Just wanted to clarify: are you paying for young men to practice groping & choking members of Congress w/ your payroll, or is this just the standard culture of #TeamMitch?
Thanks. https://t.co/ysRJuwonUx
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) August 6, 2019
I’m not going to defend what these boys were doing.
It was totally inappropriate. Regardless of how you feel about another politician, posing making demeaning gestures with a cardboard cutout of that politician is wrong.
These boys need a dad to say:
“Guys, that is inappropriate behavior. You are acting as volunteer representatives of the Senate Majority Leader and the GOP as a whole, it is important that you conduct yourselves accordingly. Do not treat other politicians with such disrespect. You win people over when you are better. It’s good that you are enthusiastic, but it is important to behave with character and dignity. If you wouldn’t be proud if your mom or grandma saw what you are doing, don’t do it.”
In a civilized, Twitter free world, people would understand that.
No, we don’t live in that world. We live in a world run by social media.
In that world, a bunch of teenage boys doing a dumb teenage boy thing must be destroyed.
let’s get some facial recognition on these little turds and start emailing their future colleges
— rstevens 69 ?? (@rstevens) August 6, 2019
Keep in mind, nobody was hurt. It was an inappropriate photo taken with a cardboard cutout, yet rstevenes69 here thinks that these boys should have the rest of their lives ruined.
This call to go after these boys’ chance to ever go to college was not an isolated Tweet.
Names. College admission applications.
— ~.*kells*.~ (@girl_kells) August 6, 2019
I’m sure there’s people on Twitter who know the names of these BOZOS, REVEAL them!
Are they simulating groping, sexually abusing @AOC?
I’m sure if they’ve applied to a college or university the admissions board would want to think twice about admitting them
DISGRACEFUL BEHAVIOR pic.twitter.com/nNdaFqQ5Gf— Bruno Hugo (@BHPIII13) August 6, 2019
Are they simulating groping, sexually abusing @AOC?
I’m sure if they’ve applied to a college or university the admissions board would want to think twice about admitting them
DISGRACEFUL BEHAVIOR pic.twitter.com/nNdaFqQ5Gf— Bruno Hugo (@BHPIII13) August 6, 2019
Names and college application destinations, please. Looks like some young men need a lesson in consequence.
— Jonathan Kraus (@kraus_jonathan) August 6, 2019
I’m not including the Tweets, but there are already responses naming these kids and doxxing them.
If threatening their college futures wasn’t enough, some people thought the appropriate response was to saddle them with a criminal record.
Imagine the response if it was a group of Latinos posing like this with a Melania Trump cutout. They’d be rounded up and arrested. Those white boys should be arrested. I look at this act as threatening sexual and physical violence on a woman. One of the women that Trump attacked.
— Graham Selby (@GrahamSelby2) August 6, 2019
Then there were those who decided that political alignment is a factor of pathology
No, this is just the way Republicans are, true sociopaths from the moment they’re born. They are monsters who prey upon the populace with depraved lust.
— Dr. Secular Citizen (@secularcitizen2) August 6, 2019
If all that fails, some good old fashioned slander will do.
Repulsive. Probably either already are or soon to be rapists.
I stand by that opinion.
— Denae M (@DenaeEdgeEdge) August 6, 2019
This is a teachable moment. We have some boys who need a lesson in respect.
What the internet wants is life-destroying vengeance.
There is no more compassion left, just hate and a desire to hurt those on the other side.