Because they’re getting the conversation out of the way now before the actual election season. This would probably have tanked her as a candidate in what will likely be a highly contested Dem field.
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Plenty of time for "out of the way" after the mid-terms though. It was supposed to skewer Trump, which is why they're pushing so hard on the ridiculous fraction. But it's Blasey-Ford level of desperation tactics. They got nothing.
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You may be right. I might be giving them/her too much credit. I still have to think that when she got her results back (which she's probably known for a while), she had to have known that this will sink her in the primary season. Either way, Trump can use this (now-- or later).
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The other problem with "getting it out of the way now" is that Warren has doubled down, rather than do some version of a mild mea culpa. She could have said "I guess my family lore was just that. But, I have always had such affection for native peoples and will fight for them."
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I think claiming Indian ancestry is really part of an old American nativizing origination myth that many Whites have engaged in. Rather than take time to learn something about White folk culture, she went with PC and AA benes to herself.
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it's also a very common family legend in Black families as an explanation for lighter skin (see: HL Gates genealogy tv show). a fascinating topic with a lot going on.
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>strong evidence The MSM will just keep on lying about this, even in the face of the Cherokee Nation statement that it "makes a mockery of DNA tests." Source: https://www.cherokee.org/News/Stories/20181015_Cherokee-Nation-responds-to-Senator-Warrens-DNA-test …pic.twitter.com/PHS3GL44Qu
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This is evidence that she lied. Almost every American has .001% Native Blood. Notice how they contrasted her % of native dna to average White person in Utah & not MA or OK or USA in general. B/c Mormons have been intermarrying for centuries
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How many businesses have received state and federal contracts for "Minority Business Enterprises" based on equally spurious claims?
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Native Americans aren't afforded any respect by this woman and she seems totally obilvious. A tacky ad selling her 1% pretending this means something to promote her career is just another in a series of affronts.
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“.....here’s how Bernie can still win!!1!”
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I hope they fact check this and correct him that it’s actually 1/1024 or whatever.
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I'm more black than she is Indian. Where's my gibs?
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If you want a picture of the future, imagine a 23andMe-Result-Inspectors and DNA-arbitration Racial Enforcers, issuing press releases on whether you are, or are NOT, Diverse...forever.
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It doesn’t. For being the holders of the Golden Megaphone, it shocks me how utterly out of step from reality liberals are in this decade.
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This is almost as funny as Ylvis' DNA test.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EzFur_8iHbA …
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Could someone who was 1/1024 Jewish still join the Nazi Party?
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I make a plea to all who "have eyes to see and ears to hear". Let's cease to call the "Democrats" a party. "Party" implies a proud patriotic alliance arguing about the true common good, loving the Laws, making its claims to a share in rule. The New Left's "factions" hate the USA.
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Media is shit.
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She never applied for affirmative action. Do try to keep up. Ignorance is not becoming.
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