Elizabeth Warren understands what it’s like to be Native American about as much as Donald Trump understands what it’s like to be a coal miner.

Yep, this is what people need to be busy with right now. Squabbling like children over the most inane shit and throwing viable candidates in the fucking grinder for it while the other side demolishes rights.

OK, so the worst she’s done is, after her entire childhood being told that she is descended from a native Cherokee, is put her name on a minority list in hopes of meeting people like her?

Warren hasn’t been living her life as a native American, or claiming that heritage as some identity to gain votes; she didn’t make her career in an area with Native American reservations or tribes, I have seen no attempt at a leadership role in a Native American group. She was a woman who was raised with stories in…

For reals. Elizabeth Warren did something questionable, so now we CLEARLY have to tar and feather our ally (/s). So fucking stupid.

I’m extremely confused about this. Warren said she had Native American ancestry. Trump yelled “POCAHONTASPOCAHONTASPOCAHONTASPOCAHONTASPOCAHONTASPOCAHONTASPOCAHONTAS.” Elizabeth Warren took a DNA test that showed she has Native American ancestry. And she’s the villain here?

It is offensive, but it is in direct response to Trump (and really Scott Brown where this all originated) whom claimed that she was only hired by Harvard to meet their diversity goals. She is not the one proactively saying “I didn’t get where I am, unlike Native Americans.” She is saying, “People are claiming I lied…

I haven’t paid much attention to this story (in general) and just sort of skimmed the article because it was over-the-top strident but:

You guys are so short sighted and cannibalistic that it numbs my mind. I think you are purposely ignoring the very clearly stated reasons for her decision going into this. Necessary? Probably not. But it is also not the career suicide you are making it out to be, or even as remotely offensive as you deem it so. Her…

Jesus Fucking Christ. Elizabeth Warren never claimed to be Native American. She tells people stories about how her grandparents told her stories about how one of her ancestors was Native American.

Just 4 years ago, before Bernie dropped on the scene, Elizabeth Warren was the best presidential hope of progressive Democrats: 

maybe it’s colossal hyperbole to describe what Warren did as a horrible thing.

Ok, so my two cents, as a very white woman (as confirmed by my own recent ancestry DNA results).

Yet, when Donald Trump wins a re-election, will have eating each other been worth it? Say what you want about Republicans, they win because they look past some pretty awful shit about their own, meanwhile the mountain of morals the rest seem to try and stand on add up to nothing when you end up with a Conservative…

I’m not gonna comment on the validity of the argument. I’m an incredibly white first generation American of European descent, and that just won’t end well.

You know what’s bothering me more about this backfiring on her? The fact that the right, and Trump personally, is able to get away with the most absurd, ridiculous claims, and NO ONE FUCKING CARES. It’s ok that he makes this asinine, outlandish statements. Someone calls him out on it, “Fake new.” But we take someone…

A little background:

Let’s be absolutely clear: the GOP now wants to pay for massive, deficit-busting tax breaks for the top 1% and corporations by cutting Medicare and Social Security.

Did she ever claim to be Native American or did she just claim she had Native ancestry?

I haven’t followed this too closely and it’s too stupid for me to care. 

Not the same. False equivalence. Rach doesn’t have any African DNA. Elizabeth does indeed have Native American DNA.