She then asked her followers to think about what would happen if the shoe were on the other foot.
she wrote in herTwitterthread.
“They’d be pretty upset if one responded with ‘the old man,’ right?
Why this kind of weird, patronizing behavior is so accepted is beyond me!”
I really don’t… we have not had any conversations.
She just speculating and saying things because she wants to" (viaThe Hill).
But there were those who felt Ocasio-Cortez could have been making a mountain out of a molehill.
This Twitter userpointed outthat, “I think it’s a decent principle to treat our elders with respect.
Yes sometimes more seasoned individuals refer to people as young lady or young man.
We all agreed with you about Manchin.
Stay on that path.”
