Ocasio-Cortez tells off top House Republican: Blame white supremacy, not video games
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy on Sunday suggested that video games are to blame for mass shootings. Video games “dehumanize individuals to have a game of shooting individuals and others,” McCarthy said on Fox News shortly after mass shootings in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, left a combined total of at least 31 people dead.
But Ocasio-Cortez said the real problem is white supremacy, and argued that it's an issue Republicans won’t address because that would mean taking on part of their base: Sadly the GOP refuse to acknowledge that, bc their strategy relies on rallying a white supremacist base.
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