EXCERPT:
OCASIO-CORTEZ: "So despite all of that rhetoric that we were hearing, they weren't actually labeled — these white supremacist incidents were not labeled as domestic terrorist incidents. And you know, I really dug into some of these distinctions, what was labelled as domestic terrorism, what was labelled as a hate crime, and I could not help, but as much as I tried to dig in and explain, I could not help but feel and see that attacks committed by Muslim Americans were almost automatically labeled as domestic terrorist incidents, yet white supremacist shooting after shooting after shooting is not. And I can't help but come to the conclusion that these labels, what's being labelled as terrorism is almost exclusively coming down to the identity, and it seems as though white men invoking white supremacy and engaging in mass shootings are almost immune from being labeled domestic terrorists in their violence. Do you find similar patterns, Mr. Selim?"