She was 7. I’m no fan of Lena Dunham and her white feminism garbage but it’s frustrating when ppl just follow along with what they heard on the internet. It wasn’t sexual abuse—it wasn’t sexual, and it wasn’t abusive, and this idea was started by a right-wing blog. Let’s not be like a right-wing blog and bring up…

it reminded me of an ad on a diner placemat.

When touch another kid at 5 or 6 you’re allowed to use the young and curious excuse. That’s more on the adults around you for not explaining/enforcing boundaries.

So you’re saying the gas and oil industry is backing a particular horse in this race?

or you could buy a taco truck and eat tacos for free for the rest of your life....

Did the buyer get a shitload of unwarranted press about this, increasing the value of that object to the buyer? Can the buyer display this somewhere, to the envy of all the other loathsome robber-baron industrialists like, as the saying goes, a “huge middle finger to everyone who enters [that buyer’s] home”?

If you literally CAN’T do your job then you’re in the wrong profession, my dude.

Yes I do see that some folks need to build a Warren shaped strawman, in order to continue this “debate”. I’m far more left leaning than an American (I’m Canadian - if that wasn’t clear from the start). I’m horrified at what I see here. It’s like trump is yelling “look over there!” Americans are all looking, and while…

Honey, I feel you! I’m exactly half Native American and Irish. My mother is full Native American and my father is from Ireland. I have dark skin but green cat eyes. Now my mother’s side was smart. They changed their names and got the fuck off the reservation and went into the oil industry. Many other families did too.…

Bloody hell, this is getting tedious. Her claim was that she has Native American ancestry (that is DNA). A DNA test confirmed that she does in fact have Native American DNA. She did not don culturally specific clothing, do a war cry, joke about flinging tomahawks, or a rain dance, or call herself pocahontas or a…

Her claim was that she has native DNA. Her claim is supported by the evidence. She is not claiming indigenous identity or tribal affiliation. There is a distinction there, that you and Leah missed (deliberately?). I can’t tell if you are trolls or just incredibly stubborn individuals.

Alright, I'll pretend I didn't actually read the article... I realize it's hard to consider a person could read it and understand the situation differently. No, Warren is not the asshole here. The orange one in the oval office is the asshole - and you are all falling for his shtick.

She isn't claiming authenticity as a Native person, she claimed native ancestry. There is a difference that you insist on ignoring. It seems like a strange thing to get hung up on, when you could instead focus on the fact that Trump forced her to address it with a DNA test, and is now reneging on a promised charitable…

The point you might have missed is that Warren is claiming DNA, not authentic indiginous identity. It’s a subtle distinction, but a distinction nonetheless. Like the OP, she is being forced to prove authenticity, though she has never claimed to be authenticly native. 

Throw blood on it, make two statements at once!

Fuck. You.

Go fuck yourself

I served (20+ years and combat) and the flag isn’t more mine than any other citizen. Hell it’s a symbol of the injustices that people are protesting.

Active duty guy here. Flag/anthem are not sacred symbols for veterans or the deceased. If you think they are so revered, go to a military base and ovserve how many people are at “Morning Colors” when the flag is raised. It is only a few folks on duty, everyone else makes sure they are inside so they don’t have to stop…

Freedom of speech and a free press is more important than any symbol. Have the balls to say you don’t care about how black people are treated in this country instead of hiding behind the flag and changing the subject.