The right-wing media sphere flew into a frenzy on Thursday when several users on social media pointed out that U.S. Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York had removed her pronouns from her bio on X, formerly Twitter.
The overarching sentiment was that Ocasio-Cortez’s decision to remove her pronouns from her bio underscored President-elect Donald Trump‘s decisive victory in the 2024 election, and was an inflection point in “woke” ideology—a derisive term that many conservatives use to describe identity politics and progressive values.
“JUST IN: AOC removed her pronouns from her bio,” read a post from the popular far-right Libs of TikTok X account.
Riley Gaines, the swimmer and political activist who is opposed to transgender athletes competing in women’s sports, wrote on X: “They’ll pretend they never embraced (or even celebrated) the insanity.
“Don’t forget who the compliant, virtue-signaling sheep were.”
The account EndWokeness, which says it is “Fighting, exposing, and mocking …