Ocasio-Cortez Sees Global Warming as a Way to Push ‘Social and Racial Justice’ Policies
5th December 2018
Democratic Congresswoman-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York said the “Green New Deal” plan she supports would be used to achieve liberal “economic, social and racial justice” goals along with fighting global warming.
“[W]e can use the transition to 100 percent energy as the vehicle to truly deliver and establish economic, social and racial justice in the United States of America,” Ocasio-Cortez said at a Tuesday panel discussion alongside Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders and environmental activist Bill McKibben.
No details, of course, about just how that is going to happen. Cynical me, I suspect it will happen by getting people used to being bossed around by SJW bureaucrats. Even if that’s the plan, don’t expect them to explain that any time soon.
While light on details, proponents said the “Green New Deal” could create millions of jobs in renewable energy and address many “social justice” issues typically on Democrats’ radar.
Uh, just how is creating what are likely to be highly technical jobs in ‘renewable energy’ going to address ‘social justice’ issues? Fashionable victim groups are rightly famous for their lack of employable skills such that they have to get jobs based on skin color, native language, or sex rather than being able to compete in the normal way on talent. I smell a boondoggle aborning.
“We have injustices in this country. Those injustices are concentrated in frontline communities and indigenous, black and brown communities,” she said. “They’re the ones that experience the greatest depths of this injustice.”
Of course, were you to ask her to name some, she couldn’t do it. She’ll just wave her hands in the air and claim that everybody knows what they are.
There are times when ‘airhead’ is too kind a word to use.
December 6th, 2018 at 23:36
Of course, that is the whole purpose of “global warming”. She is just dumb rnough to say it out loud.