Except that she had already had herself listed as a “minority” “Native American” for nearly a decade in the national law faculty directory, years before she ever got near Harvard. It’s about a lot more than her arrival to the Harvard faculty, although of course they were delighted to pretend she was their first “woman of color” on the Harvard Law faculty. She used this fake status to advance with Penn as well, before Harvard.
Yep, you nailed it.
Not only did Warren advance her career by being a trans-racial law professor, HLS benefitted from the deception as well.
It goes to the fraud of her personal narrative and points as well to the absurdity of leftist racial politics and victimhood.
Trump rightly seized on it as a defining issue to destroy Warren and she cooperated with that effort.
The press failed to see the absurdity in her 1/1024th heritage claim and thought they could control the narrative. Reddit, 4chan, conservative bloggers and media were all over it and exposed her sham. She’s still a laughingstock on social media over this.
Buck is right pointing out that CNN gleefully participated in attempting to spin the narrative early in Warren’s favor. Then jumped on the train bashing her hours after she’d already been exposed.
This was such a grave error by her you almost wonder if a Biden or Clinton camp person told her to engage in this career-killing stupidity. It was her “Spartacus” moment for sure.
Exactly. People keep saying “Harvard”. It was UofPenn that she went to, though I don’t know if she put NA on her application.
The other thing many are not reporting on are her home loan applications. Apparently she flipped a lot of homes. Did she use this claim to gain favorable loans with Fanny Mae and Freddy Mac? Academic fraud is one thing. Would that be loan fraud?