AOC explains why she won’t go on Fox News: "Unmitigated racism"

“I go back and forth on whether to go on Fox News. The main reason I haven’t is squaring the fact that the ad revenue from it bankrolls a white supremacist sympathizer to broadcast an hourlong production of unmitigated racism, without any accountability whatsoever,” Ocasio-Cortez responded on Twitter Wednesday.

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On Tuesday, Carlson and his guest Seth Barron, an editor at the City Journal, a conservative urban policy magazine, took aim at Ocasio-Cortez while playing a video of trash littering the streets of her New York district…

“‘Immigrants are dirty’ is a lazy, tired, racist trope,” Ocasio-Cortez said in response to the segment. “Secondly, environmental injustice is a major motivation as to why we introduced and wrote the Green New Deal the way we did in the first place.”

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