AOC has been criticized for her heavy use of [[Marxist]] clichés and racist comments about "token blacks."<ref>https://www.dailywire.com/news/44137/ugly-racist-tweet-ocasio-cortez-slammed-promoting-ryan-saavedra</ref> In 2018, Ocasio-Cortez led a group of insurrectionists in a takeover of [[Speaker Nancy Pelosi]]'s office inside the [[U.S. Capitol]] building.<ref>https://www.westernjournal.com/ocasio-cortez-activists-occupy-nancy-pelosis-office-demand-green-new-deal/</ref> After the [[2020 presidential election]], Ocasio-Cortez incited people to participate in protests:
{{cquote|"The whole point of protesting is to make ppl [sicpeople] uncomfortable. Activists take that discomfort w/ the status quo & advocate for concrete policy changes. Popular support often starts small & grows. To folks who complain protest demands make others uncomfortable... that’s the point.<ref>https://townhall.com/tipsheet/leahbarkoukis/2021/01/07/aoc-tweet-on-protesting-n2582684</ref><ref>https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1334184644707758080</ref>}}
Ocasio-Cortez posted to [[Instagram]] a list of demands from [[Black Lives Matter]] protesters to end the violence;<ref>https://twitter.com/Public_Citizen/status/1266776797301166088</ref><ref>https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/rick-moran/2020/06/07/black-lives-matter-means-defund-the-police-n503697</ref> Black Lives Matter [[murder]]ed an 8 year old black girl in [[Atlanta]], Georgia on July 5, 2020.<ref>https://israelunwired.com/8-year-old-black-girl-killed-by-black-lives-matter-activists/</ref> She has been condemned by the United States Holocaust Museum for mocking the deaths of [[Nazi]] [[holocaust]] victims.<ref>https://www.ushmm.org/information/press/press-releases/statement-regarding-the-museums-position-on-holocaust-analogies</ref><ref>https://dailycaller.com/2019/06/24/holocaust-museum-comparisons/</ref> An avowed racist, AOC says
{{cquote|the people that are producing climate change, that’s right, those people, the ones destroying the Earth, driving entire species to extinction, killing children, ever notice how all those people look alike? ... the people who are producing climate change, the folks that are responsible for the largest amount of emissions, or communities or corporation, they tend to be predominantly white.<ref>https://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/item/33898-ocasio-cortez-white-people-are-killing-us<br>https://twitter.com/CreativeDeduct/status/1189799615895351296?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw</ref>}}