Alexandria Ocasio - Cortez , a 28 - year - old reformist activist , became the Democratic nominee for New York ’s fourteenth congressional district after a primary election yesterday . Ocasio - Cortez overcome 56 - year - honest-to-goodness Joseph Crowley , a man who attend to ten terms and was the hot seat of the House Democratic Caucus . The unearthly part ? Ocasio - Cortez did n’t even have a Wikipedia page on Monday . But she has onenow .
NBC News reporterBen Collinswas the first to point out the absence seizure of Ocasio - Cortez ’s page yesterday . When someone first tried to make a Wikipedia page for her on August 14 , 2017 , the user waschided , “ do not start separate article until multiple reliable , lowly sources discuss her in depth . ” A page about her was n’t allowed to be on Wikipedia until she won the Democratic nominating speech last nighttime .
Why is Ocasio - Cortez ’s victory a big deal for Democrats ? She ’s a extremity of the Democratic Socialists of America and a former PDA for Bernie Sanders . Crowley , the Isle of Man she defeat , was being groomed to be the next Speaker of the House . “ No one is safe , ” a Democratic strategist toldABC News .
Wikipedia has a insidious but profound shock on the way that we see the earth here in the 2010s . If there ’s a Wikipedia page for something , it exists and people can connect to it and debate it on the internet . But for thing and hoi polloi who do n’t have Wikipedia pages , there ’s a sign to the globe that this issue or individual is n’t crucial . Until yesterday , Wikipedia editor did n’t deem Ocasio - Cortez as important .
And we ’re seeing this debate over Wikipedia Page dally out again and again in the Trump era . Last calendar week , Donald Trump ’s immigrant detention centers , sometimes known as “ Trump Hotels , ” were added to Wikipedia ’s list of concentration andinternment camps . There was an editing war for days on the user - redact encyclopedia until it was ultimately removed .
As of today , Trump Hotels are n’t on Wikipedia ’s list of poundage camp . But any objective observer will tell you that they deserve to be there . As Andrea Pitzer , writer of the bookOne Long Night : A Global History of Concentration Camps , put iton Twitter , “ Yes , of trend they ’re assiduousness camp . They are n’t the unique subset of death camps that were forge by the Nazis for racial extermination , or even Arctic Gulag camps build for hard labour . But they ’re camps created to penalise a whole class of civilians via raft detention without trial . ”
In another sign of just how surprising Ocasio - Cortez ’s victory was to the establishment yesterday , the Associated Press does n’t have any photos of her from her victory party last night . While look for for photos on the various telegram services that Gizmodo pledge to , this was the event for Alexandria Ocasio - Cortez :
Yep , all the AP has is a photo of Joseph Crowley .
“ This is not an end , this is the showtime . This is the commencement because the message that we sent the reality tonight is that it ’s not OK to put conferrer before your community , ” Ocasio - Cortez state after her victory was certainlast nighttime .
And she give thanks her athletic supporter who were able to mobilise the community for her big winnings .
“ You have yield this country hope , you have impart this country proof that when you knock on your neighbor ’s door , when you arrive to them with love , when you lease them know that no matter your position , you are there for them — that we can make change , ” say Ocasio - Cortez .
The midterm exam elections will be hold on November 6 , 2018 . And with Alexandria Ocasio - Cortez ’s profits , it ’s look more and more like this will be the election where Americans finally throw the derriere out . If organizers are smart they ’ll start waging battle online in the space that some popular activists might not think too much about . Like Wikipedia .
The last agate line for the intro to Crowley ’s Wikipedia page currentlyreads , “ He was defeated by Democratic Socialist Alexandria Ocasio - Cortez on June 26 , 2018 in the Democratic primary . ”
[ Ben Collins on Twitter ]
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