Posted on 10/15/2018 2:26:00 PM PDT by reaganaut1
She’s the Richard Blumenthal of intersectionality, minus the apology.
Do you want to know what media bias looks like?
Earlier today, Massachusetts senator Elizabeth Warren released DNA test results that confirmed that she misled employers, students, and the public about her Native American heritage for years. Bizarrely, all too many members of the media treated the results as vindicating her. Down is up. Black is white. The imperatives of the resistance apparently dictate propping up a liar — as long as she might be able to beat President Trump in 2020.
Here are the facts. For an extended period of time — at a key point in her professional life — Warren identified herself as a Native American woman. She listed herself as Native American on a key legal directory reviewed by deans and hiring committees. Former employers — such as the University of Pennsylvania and Harvard Law School — listed Warren as a minority faculty member. Harvard Law School even trumpeted her as the school’s first tenured “woman of color.”
Warren contributed to a Native American recipe book called — I kid you not — “Pow Wow Chow.” She has told people that her parents eloped because her father’s parents said he couldn’t marry her mother “because she is part Cherokee and part Delaware.”
In the progressive academy, misrepresenting your heritage is no small thing. In the early 1990s Harvard was under immense pressure to diversify its faculty. I know. I was there. I remember the sit-ins, the demonstrations, and the tension that pervaded campus. I remember Warren when she came to campus as a visiting professor.
The best comparison to Warren’s misrepresentations — especially in the identity-obsessed academic environment — is to a politician misrepresenting his military experience.
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This is a quote from the full DNA report:
“The average segment length is 5.8 centiMorgans.”
But, earlier the report said that there is one DNA segment which is 13.4 centimorgans in length. That would mean that the remaining DNA segments in the 4 remaining chromosomes would average about 3 centimorgans, which most DNA testing places don’t even count because it is what is considered to be statistical noise. So, she is left with one segment of 13.4 centimorgans. That means that her total Indian genes are less than one half of one percent of her DNA. Even throwing in the tiny segments that mostly aren’t counted, that would still bring her up to only .049 percent of her DNA. Nothing to really make a difference, and certainly wouldn’t be enough to give someone high cheekbones, or sent her grandparents running away to get married, because of one of them’s “Indian” background. Her story is still composed mainly of lies.
The guy is supposedly an advisor to ancestry. He may be brilliant I don't know. However he can only do so much when we are talking about one ancestor 6-10 generations back. So his findings can never be considered conclusive.
Who cares about a DNA test? The true determining hereditary factor is whether she is enough “indian” to receive a cut of casino profits.
Exactly what I was thinking.
She said her parents had to elope basically because of a ‘NA relative from 250 years ago’? She’s so out to lunch.
David French - sorry, but you are an idiot if you think the media “fell” for the lies of Lieawatha.
They are in on the ruse, quite happily and without hesitation.
My daughter’s GGG grandma is a full-blooded Mohawk from Akwesasne
Indian Resevation in upstate NY. As a matter of fact just about everbody in that part of NY State can claim Indian blood. One of my daughter’s looks like me. She’s light-complected and if she lays in the sun 10 minutes she gets sunburned. My other daughter is dark-complected and if she lays in the sun she gets darker. Their mother and her mother and father had black hair and and also were dark complected. Not a one of them claimed they were Indian. Not a one wanted to. For what. They grew up with and went to school with the Indians who lived right down the road. Every time we went to Massena you had to drive through the reservation. We always stopped for cheap cigarettes. There’s a couple of big casinos and I’ve got a couple nieces who’ve been working there for years. You can tell they’re part Indian, but it’s never mentioned. It’s no big deal, about everybody has Indian in their family. . They would not think of passing themselves off as Indian because their GGG grandma was a Mohawk.
No, they didn’t “fall” for it. They’re IN on it.
Right. The real issue is using believed and unprovable ancestry to get special treatment. It’s a load of crap.
“For an extended period of time — at a key point in her professional life — Warren identified herself as a Native American woman.”
And she was correct. Anyone born in the United States of America is a native American.
What she really claimed was that she was an American Indian.
Democrats aren’t against cultural appropriation, they are only against anyone but Democrats doing it.
Only because Harvard WANTED her to scam the system so they wouldn't have to hire a REAL INJUN.
They KNEW she was not an American Indian and could have declined to hire her under the Affirmative Action (AKA discriminating based on Color/Creed/Sex) but then they would have lost Federal Funding.
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