New bad logic from Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Just when I think AOC can't "do it again," she can indeed.

In a longform GQ interview with Wesley Lowry, she says this about a rape of several years ago that she started discussing after the Jan. 6, 2021 Capitol insurrection:

Ocasio-Cortez never reported her assault, a choice she knows is familiar for many women and one she said she’d make the same way today. “If the vast majority of sexual assaults happen by a familiar person, the last thing you’re going to want to do is throw someone in jail,” she said. “There is an intersection with the work of abolition and healing and contending with the fact that we as people are capable of doing harm, but we are also capable of healing from harm.”

Wow.

By that logic, as I told her on Twitter, a child suffering physical abuse at the hand of parents or other family, let alone incest, shouldn't report them because they know their abusers.

I understand women who say they don't report sexual assaults because of the hurdles of reporting, and in many cases, the additional trauma of going through the criminal reporting process, even with support of hospital nursing staff and such. I not only understand, but accept that and even support it. 

But this? No. I "understand" it in the technical sense of knowing what AOC says. Other than that? No.

The next paragraph ain't much better.

Part of that healing, though, is the acknowledgment and accountability that she was denied. “Whatever the given circumstances of a situation, if a person is hurt or harmed it’s important to hold space for it, and it’s very, very, very difficult to hold space for a hurt person when you are the one they are saying hurt them,” she replied when I asked how she’d advise a man in her life to respond were he confronted with an allegation of assault.

Uhh, you chose to let someone else not be accountable. You denied it to yourself.

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Meanewhile, neither she nor Lowry as scribe note the Dems' Green New Deal was ripped off from Greens. Don't forget Sunrise Movement's stealth assistance in that. Nor do either of them note all the Big Oil and other loopholes in Biden's Inflation Reduction Act. She also doesn't address what would happen if Nancy Pelosi breaks her pledge to step down as Speaker, should Dems keep control of the House.