That's my point, I tried to edit my post but no, you don't cross your hands behind your back and leave them like that unless the cops are asking you to do it so they can cuff you. People who go willingly and are not deemed any sort of threat by police are NOT expected to nor do they normally keep their wrists crossed behind their back like that. So I absolutely reject your notion of that aspect.
I don't mean to come off as condescending, but you're smarter than this. The entire framework and idea of this conversation is ridiculous.
You are talking about getting arrested as if it is some normal occurrence for an individual to experience. Not to mention the rationale of why one would pretend to be handcuffed anyways.
How many times does a person get arrested in their life? How often do people get arrested and not handcuffed?
You are making this strong declaration that "people are not deemed a threat, and not expected to keep their hands behind their back if the officer doesn't cuff you" as if getting arrested is something that people normally experience. And why would the person getting arrested play with what the cop may or may not deem a threat? The safest position would be for your hands to be where they can see them--behind your back.
I've never been arrested, but every time I've seen someone get arrested, they've had their hands cuffed behind their back.
ESPECIALLY in today's climate, to act like it is odd for someone to put their hands behind their back is ridiculous.
Here she is getting arrested. A cop grabs her left arm from behind, she puts her hands behind her back, they walk about 5 steps, and she raises her right fist.
And then you can see Ilhan Omar doing the same thing, walking with her hands behind her back.
I'm sounding like a broken record here, and this is the last time I'm going to say this, but they are outside, surrounded by people and cameras, so the idea that they think they are fooling people into thinking they are being handcuffed makes no sense on every conceivable level.
How do you "pretend" to be handcuffed and then literally raise your "pretend handcuffed" fist half of a second later?
If you're still gonna go with this pretend handcuff story then there is no breaking this AOCDS. There is plenty of actual shit to criticize AOC on, so this is just a bizarre hill to die on.
And quite frankly, I don't think AOC put all of this forethought into that action to where she was rifling through all the aspects of doing that at the time. It was a spur of the moment thing meant to resonate. An emotional issue for her and she wanted to garner attention and make some sort of statement. You think she needs to be "stupid" to get caught up in a moment of high emotion and do something to as some sort of gesture? Do you know how many smart people have allowed emotion to override their intelligence throughout history?
As I said, this is the impossible standard that you have set up here.
She's a politician whose job it is to represent her constiuents, she comes from an activist background, and she is literally at a protest. What is the purpose of a protest? To call attention to an issue. She's doing exactly what she should be doing, and you boil that down to her
just seeking attention for herself.
So she doesn't actually care about abortion, the environment, or poor people. She turns away companies like Amazon, and gets shit on by the establishment Democratic party....all for attention?
I wonder what would grab her more attention, being the "crazy" outcast leftie that supports "crazy" Bernie, and is disliked by most of the other establishment Democrats, orrrrrrr, being a mainstream liberal that backs up Pelosi, and gets celebrities like Taylor Swift or Beyonce to hang out with Joe Biden to make him look cool and 'hip" ?
So no, I don't find her to generally be a very authentic person. Just as she doesn't believe Hobby Lobby to be very authentic in urging people to be kind, generous, etc. I'd never take away her right to comment on it, she has every right in the world to tweet how she feels. But don't I then also have the right to comment on how I don't believe her to be very genuine either?
The comparison is ridiculous. How do you compare a person and an organization?
This is just a "whataboutism" that completely ignores the point that was being made. Whether you think she is authentic or not is irrelevant to the argument.
It is not even a question of who is more or less authentic. What does that have to do with what the argument is?
This is simple:
Left Wing: Abortion is a woman's right.
Right Wing: Abortion is Murder.
Hobby Lobby : 1. Funding the right wing legal cases to ban abortion and contraception.
2. Makes commercial promoting peace.
Left Wing: Your commercial is bullshit. There is no peace or love, because you are currently working at taking the rights to my own body away from me.
Right Wing: Why are you against peace and kindness ?
What is the middle, or "peace" between murder and taking my rights away?
If Planned Parenthood was funding that ad, then Ted Cruz or MTG would be just as within their right to say that the ad was bullshit because Planned Parenthood "is funding child murder", so how can they simulatenously try to sell us a message of peace while killing our kids?
That's the argument. What does any of this other stuff about AOC crying, or "pretending" to be handcuffed have to do with anything?