Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has condemned comments by New York City Mayor Eric Adams, who disparaged people he considers “low-skilled workers” in a recent press conference.
the ruling class. “My low-skilled workers, my cooks, my dishwashers, my messengers, my shoe-shine people, those who work at Dunkin’ Donuts – they don’t have the academic skills to sit in a corner office,” he said.from the press conference, which amassed over 3.4 million views on Twitter, was met with heavy criticism – including from Ocasio-Cortez, who often speaks out in defense of lower-income workers.
“The suggestion that any job is ‘low skill’ is a myth perpetuated by wealthy interests to justify inhumane working conditions, little/no healthcare, and low wages,” the“[B]eing a waitress has made me and many others *better* at our jobs than those who’ve never known that life,” she added. Ocasio- Cortez wasn’t the only person to denounce the mayor’s comments on social media. “With a bachelor’s degree I worked part-time at Subway, as a receptionist, and as a cashier at a department store. I sold mattresses with a master’s degree,”. “I also am human enough to know that your job does not dictate your value.”
Scott Hechinger, a public defender in Brooklyn, criticized Adams more generally, pointing to the mayor’s history of uplifting oppressive systems of policing and imprisonment. “Eric Adams seethes with disdain for [the people] of NYC. Insult them. Arrest them. Cage them. Torture them with solitary confinement,”job as a waitress, has been disparaged by some of her conservative colleagues for working in the service industry before becoming a lawmaker.
“Republicans like to make fun of the fact that I used to be a waitress, but we all know if they ever had to do a double they’d be the ones found crying in the walk-in fridge halfway through their first shift because someone yelled at them for bringing seltzer when they wanted sparkling,”
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