'There's a lot of sexualizing of that violence and I didn't think that I was just going to be killed,' AOC said. 'I thought other things were going to happen to me as well.'
that she was afraid she was going to be raped and killed on January 6, when a mob of pro-Trump insurrectionists laid siege to the US Capitol in a failed effort to overturn the 2020 US election results.
"One of the reasons why that impact was so double that day is because of the misogyny and the racism that is so deeply rooted and animated the attack on the Capitol," Ocasio-Cortez told Bash in an interview for CNN's new series "Being," which is set to air in full Monday at 9 p.m. ET. "White supremacy and patriarchy are very linked in a lot of ways," the New York congresswoman continued. "There's a lot of sexualizing of that violence, and I didn't think that I was just going to be killed. I thought other things were going to happen to me as well."
Bash replied: "So it sounds like what you're telling me right now is that you didn't only think that you were going to die - you thought you were going to be raped."While recounting her experience of the Capitol riot, Ocasio-Cortezon Instagram Live in February that she'd previously been sexually assaulted, and she compared Republicans who downplayed the riot and urged the country to move on to abusers.
"They're trying to tell us to move on without any accountability, without any truth-telling, or without confronting the extreme damage, loss of life, trauma," Ocasio-Cortez said then. "The reason I say this, and the reason I'm getting emotional is because they told us to move on, that it's not a big deal, that we should forget what happened, or even telling us to apologize. These are the tactics of abusers.
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