“I can’t shell more than a handful of these before it feels like glass splinters have been shoved under my fingernail”

“‘actual native americans’ is a bullshit statement that in and of itself is bigotted” What? In what way is it bigoted, or bullshit? So you don’t think there are “actual” racial and ethnic identities? Are you of the opinion that people can self-identify as whatever race or ethnicity based on whatever they feel like?…

Do “most people” really disagree with this call? Looks like fan interference to me, and once the call on the field was made, if they had overturned that on replay it would be total b.s. because if one thing is certain, it’s that there is no absolute certainty from any of those angles. But Betts’ body is pretty far…

“You’d think fans would know better by now, don’t lean over the fucking wall to make a catch” When there’s projectile hurtling at you, any human’s instinct is going to be to stick their hands out to catch it. The option they could’ve chosen to avoid this is “get out of the way” but you’re tracking the ball with your…

You are ignoring the fundamental complaint against Warren. It’s not about things she said, it’s that she identified herself as a minority when she was a law professor. It’s not a straw man. This is an article from the Harvard student newspaper in 1996:

The reason Harvard was claiming she was Native American is that she had been marking herself as Native American/minority in the official directory for law professors for 8 years, across 3 different schools she worked at. That she did not know at the time that they had claimed her as a diversity hire is completely…

I feel like you don’t understand the controversy. Here’s an article from the Harvard student newspaper in 1996 talking about diversity in their law department:

The fact that she didn’t grow up in traditional native american cultures isn’t a secondary issue—that’s the primary issue, and the whole reason why this DNA test thing is such a farce. Unless you believed that Elizabeth Warren was just lying about having family stories of a distant relative who was Cherokee, then why…

Not really understanding your point, or how it is in any way “beside the point.” The fact that Warren self-identified as native american, and Harvard took that and ran with it, is beside the point? How? What point is it beside? 

Well, Harvard learned that Warren was native american from ... Elizabeth Warren. It’s fine that Warren now says she didn’t think it was appropriate for Harvard to use her identity that way, but it doesn’t seem she tried to correct them at the time either. There is basically no way that she wasn’t aware of this at the…

I don’t think she should stop her campaign, and it’s certainly not automatically disqualifying for her if she’s running for President, but I also don’t think it’s nothing. The fact that she did it in the first place and moreso the way that she handled it when it was brought up does make me question her judgment. Every…

I think reasonable people can think that she didn’t use it to get affirmative action, but still think it’s wrong for her to have claimed that she was a minority, no matter what the reasons were. Certainly the consensus from actual native americans seems to be that she is in the wrong. I’m honestly not sure how you can…

Do you have a source for that, saying that she apologized? I have researched her. I can find nowhere that says she ever apologized and multiple sources that specifically say she did not apologize.

“Jesus Fucking Christ. Elizabeth Warren never claimed to be Native American.”

So if you got a job for a company where there weren’t traditionally any Jewish employee, and you filled out a questionnaire about race and ethnicity and checked the box for Jewish, and then your company started touting you as an example of their diverse hiring practices because you’re Jewish, do you think that would…

She marked herself as a minority when she was a law professor in the late 80s and early 90s. She was listed as a “minority” by the Association of American Law Schools and Harvard used her as an example of a native american employee... that is claiming yourself to be native american and not just that you had native…

She listed herself as native american and she was listed as a “minority law professor” at the schools she worked at. How is that not a problem? That is a case of actual negative cultural appropriation—she is falsely claiming minority status and at least helped to artificially inflate minority hiring information at…

“I’d hate to see a situation where companies are shamed into paying $15 an hour, and then due to inflation $15 is valued at the same level as the $11 they’re getting now.” Setting a minimum wage at $15 is not going to cause dramatic inflation like that. Just look at it with Amazon here. They said it “impacts” 250,000…

Goes to show what great analysts Underwood and Manning are, since Underwood is definitely a twit and Manning is definitely a blowhard. 

“ It’s hard to believe that Hernandez would go to these delusional lengths to essentially frame Salazar,”