A whole lot of you showed your asses on this one. btw, another widely cited (including in NYT) Native voice against Warren makes regular appearances on Tucker Carlson and Laura Ingraham. You're being spun.pic.twitter.com/p17JoArfxl
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A whole lot of you showed your asses on this one. btw, another widely cited (including in NYT) Native voice against Warren makes regular appearances on Tucker Carlson and Laura Ingraham. You're being spun.pic.twitter.com/p17JoArfxl
I don't think that the "native complaints" which are "she shouldn't claim ancestry she has no real connection to" are the same as the GOP claim , which is "affirmative action is a scam." Warren is honestly my favorite candidate from a merit perspective, 1/2
but I think what she did (as a college student) unseemly and the whole DNA stunt shows some tone deafness with respect to why people were upset 2/2
I've said before it was a bit of a clumsy move from a perspective of political tactics, but the confidently argued notion that she committed some grievous racist affront to all Native people by doing it is complete bunk.
More than clumsy, it conceded a view of ethnicity based on blood that is dangerous and Trump's ground.
That said, totally agree about opportunistic use of critiques of Warren and appreciate this thread.
Putting aside the political wisdom of the test and the execution of the rollout, my underlying position is that she has a right a) to tell her family story as she understands it, and b) to demonstrate that she hasn't been lying about it.
I also got annoyed because she has repeatedly, explicitly stated that she does not claim tribal membership and respects that distinction, and yet people kept getting mad at her for supposedly claiming tribal membership. The whole thing felt like a prefab smear to me.
Bingo! Many people responding to Warren's statements on her ancestry ignored (perhaps intentionally) that she was not claiming tribal membership, and acted as if she was. It was the second huge glaring hole in the story.
I can guarantee you there is more than one Native person that is upset with Warren.
Sure, as I said, Native people aren't monolithic.
That academic is Kim TallBear, the preeminent scholar on the topic. Employment at a Canadian university is irrelevant to evaluating her expertise. I recommend her prolific peer-reviewed scholarship. A couple are in an obscure outlet called Science.http://kimtallbear.com
All I meant to imply is that she's a single voice whose opinion on this was presented by many on the left as authoritatively speaking for Native peoples.
Dr. TallBear has been discussing her research findings. Many have opinions. Few have spent a career learning about a topic. Please show Dr. TallBear the respect she’s due.
As I see it, if one questions indigenous scholarship based on the limited number of scholars, one endorses tons of institutional racism in academia. Profs discourage students from studying the topic. Funders don’t support the work. Universities don’t hire in the area.
It wasn't just one Native voice. There's no monolithic response, but writing off Native objections to Warren's approach is really gross.
I'm not and neither does the article. What the article does do is show that these voices were cast as representative of prevailing sentiment, that this was inaccurate, and that no one really did the work at the time to explore what prevailing sentiment might actually be.
"leftists who listened to exactly one Native voice"--but there were MANY voices and you're reducing them to one. Look, media coverage of this sucks, no doubt, but there are plenty of grassroots activists on twitter who object and aren't showing up in media coverage, either
...who's the academic in Alberta?
A Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate (a US tribe) professor who happens to be the leading academic on Native Americans and DNA, who is a widely respected expert, and is far from “exactly one Native voice” on this issue that you snidely waive away.
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