The media and the Republican party had no problem demanding that Warren take a DNA test. The media does not consider Pocohontas a racist attack and have no problem amplifying conservative attacks that baselessly accuse Warren of lying about her race for benefits.

Exactly. She’s not claiming or expecting anything except to prove an asshole wrong. It’s really past time that Democrats/Progressives/Liberals stop being so nice and get our hands dirty and quit letting the lies and the craziness coming out of Republican mouths stand like it’s normal and we have to be “above the fray”…

You have the correct take here and the commentariat at Splinter has lost their goddamn minds.

A little background:

I’m replying very very tepidly, because I am white with zero Native American ancestry (can I say that? I mean that respectfully). I am not going to presume to argue against anything that anyone of non-white heritage would say insults them, because I have never been subjected to any of the myriad injustices that they…

This is terrible and wrong. There is no nice spin to it. It’s just bad.

Warren NEVER claimed to be a formal member of any tribe, just that family lore had it that she was descended from Native Americans. She was mocked and vilified for this. But that lore now has been very strongly buttressed by DNA testing.

She isn’t…

I told my female therapist about my experiences being harassed, assaulted and objectified, and she told me these things do not happen to all women

Mainer here too. Been calling for weeks as you have. I got through to a human ONCE in her Lewiston office. He didn’t even give me a response when I was done even though I was making sure I was polite and clear so he wouldn’t just discount my opinion. Just said ok and hung up. She’s known for weeks how she was going to…

You’ll get the same form letter we all get from her. God forbid anyone in her office take time to respond to what must be among the smallest number of constituents for a Senator in the country. I haven’t been able to get through by phone for over a week now.

That is what I screamed in my car, on repeat, as I listened to Collins spew her garbage. 

This! Plus her “no corroboration” then the “I heard from friends who had suffered the same and were SILENT FOR YEARS”.

I live in Kentucky and Mitch McConnell’s voicemail is always full. He can’t even be bothered to pretend to listen to his constituents. I send snail mail letters and emails and get boilerplate replies thanking me for my concern. Next time I’m going to write, “As your constituent and as an American I think you’re…

She’s not naive. She’s evil, just like the rest of them.

He threw a temper tantrum last week and the Republicans watched and said, “Yeah! That’s what we need more of in the highest court of the nation!”

Susan Collins went OUT OF HER WAY to be a totally traumatic asshole.

Castigate Collins, but also Manchin and Flake. Collins shouldn’t be held to a higher moral standard because she’s a woman.

After Kavanaugh’s impassioned Clinton conspiracy vendetta rant, I wonder if “fairness” toward liberals, feminists, women, or anyone else who came out against him will be in jeopardy.

My dog sleeps in my bed and tells me where I can sleep which is not next to my husband because that is her spot.