The same logic which is used to condemn Trump condemns AOC. She was very outspoken when 49 Muslims were killed by white nationalists and went on and on about the world wide threat white terrorism posed. But over 200 dead Christians and deadly silence. Too busy promoting her phoney movie about her phoney campaign. She would never condemn radical islam. Even worse than Trump in that regard
Jon, you're missing the comp - it would have been better if he had been silent on it (and yeah that would been bad as well but not as bad as this).
The comp would be Cortez saying, 'Oh well yaknow there were some good muslims there with those terrorists too.'
A Cortez supporter would have to come back and say, 'Ohhh noooo she meant some other totally different event, she had no idea what had gone on in Sri Lanka.' People criticize her for having bad ideas, not for being completely ignorant of events she's supposed to be aware of. - And this is the version of events used in the defense.