The most ridiculous thing about US notions of decorum, is that people are expected to be silent when Black women are attacked.🤷🏿♂️
If a Black woman is attacked and no one says anything, it's allowed to slide. But if a Black woman is attacked and people say anything in response, either calmly and politely like AOC did, or with an in-kind response like Crockett did, then all the "neutral" parties come pouring out of the woodwork, worried about "decorum."
@mekkaokereke Here's the video that shows what happened. Crockett did NOT directly call Greene these things. What she was doing was asking for clarity if it's ok for Greene to strike her comment about fake eyelashes (a dig directed at Crockett, speaking to her) from the record, would the same chair do the same if she were to say, "bleach blonde bad built butch body"? Because the D's wanted that in the record for all posterity & the chair was allowing it to be stricken. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqW03WGzVAI
My only issue with it at all, is making fun of people's appearance in general is not good. But don't interpret that as me criticizing Crockett's criticizing MTG's appearance in response.
Yes, this is very different then if Crockett had just made this comment out of the blue. That would be wrong. Here, she was making a very specific point. Yes, it's still hurtful to other people who might feel insulted by this.
Most of the people who have detailed feedback on how Crockett could have responded proportionally without resorting to making fun of MTG's appearance, have never, not even once, come to the defense of a Black woman being attacked publicly.
Black folk are supposed to have a superhuman ability to receive insults, never get mad, always respond proportionately, and never escalate beyond the point of the initial insult. But it doesn't always work that way.
@mekkaokereke I loved Crockets comeback. She is a hero. I almost fell out of my seat when she asked specifically about what she would be allowed to say.
And the mtg question of "did I hurt your feelings" is an admission from a bully.
@mekkaokereke IMO Crockett’s response was the high road. It was clever in a way that MTG’s comment was not. She was merely asking for clarification from the chair 🤷
@mekkaokereke Thank you for posting this. I don’t like commenting on folks’ appearance, but Crockett is being taken to task at a level others have not for similar or worse comments. It is because she is a black women.
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