Read on Twitter
Young women of color in leadership roles are dissected and scrutinized at a different level and with an entirely different kind of viciousness. What happens to @aoc every day is a real-time example of intersectional harassment. Don't contribute to that.
You can see that people shot right past the "benefit of the doubt" and "curious, why is she doing that" stages and straight to the "this proves she is a traitor and pure evil" stage tonight, didn't you? How much time do we spend on the former for white men who "belong" up there?
I know we are afraid and our anxieties are playing out through our pre-existing biases. The rest of this year calls on us to bring our best selves. Give grace. Lift people up. That's how we'll be as strong as we can be on the home stretch.
