In a series of tweets on Sunday evening, Ocasio-Cortez accused pundits of using the term “woke” as a derogatory euphemism for civil rights and justice.

She wrote: “One dangerous aspect of thinking there’s a ‘woke problem’ is that Dem chances for re-election or majorities in House, Senate, & WH [White House] rely on the racial justice issue of voting rights.”…

Ocasio-Cortez continued: “Making up a ‘woke’ problem results in putting civil & voting rights on the backburner. In a year state legislatures are planning out GOP majorities & voter suppression, that’s dangerous.

“People think Fox News is just about indoctrinating right-wingers, but it’s also about conditioning Dems on what to run away from. Framing racial justice as ‘controversial’ is key to delaying the protection of voting rights (& others) until it’s too late. We shouldn’t indulge it.”