I agree. She really couldn’t have picked a stupider way to handle this. That her response was to take a DNA test (and those are notoriously useless and unreliable) and then say “I told you so!” about a laughably minute *possible* bit of ancestry makes it look even worse. She actually claimed status having done zero…

Do you think the charisma is part of the problem with this particular issue though? She’s not charismatic. At all. She’s not “folksy” in a believable way. All of that plays fine as an academic, but less well as a politician. Maybe she trotted out this family history bit as an attempt to connect with people. That is rea…

She fucked up people are calling her out. Yeah let’s disregard the complaints of Native American because she’s a woman.

She released a DNA test because of a bunch of racist mocking by the president

EXACTLY. This is the part that worries me the most.

All these responses indicate people that don’t get it. It doesn’t matter if it doesn’t matter to you. It made her a joke. All it did was intensify claims she was exaggerating her Native American heritage, which is minuscule at best, and ticked off some allies by the way she presented it.

it’s a huge turnoff. can’t support her passionately, or at all, after this outlandish behavior.

The reason we are talking about this is because Elizabeth Warren is extremely bad at politics. As was Hillary Clinton. Nominating her would be the biggest mistake Democrats made since the last one. It isn’t “Democrats” that made her own herself. It was the fact that she lives in an echo chamber and doesn’t understand…

I don’t know if she said she was a “member of a nation” but she did claim she was a minority which is 100% not true.

You should be a PR rep. But yeah, she showed pretty bad judgement on this and I don’t think she should run. We have plenty of other better and stronger progressives that don’t have this embroiled battle with Trump.

I think that’s what she was trying to do, though. I think she legitimately thought that bringing the DNA test into it would change the conversation and put her on offensive.

All she had to say is there is a bit of Native ancestry in my DNA, however my family blew this way out of proportion as did I. She knows she benefited from this practically non-existent Native ancestry without having to deal with any of the negative things that come along with being First Nations or a person of…

I felt like you did about her once, until I read about how her obsession with her Native American ancestry caused pain to actual Native Americans. I encourage you to read Dr. Kim Tallbear’s response before concluding that Warren was the last great candidate of the democratic party. Run Harris.

There are plenty of other candidates who can be nominated. We can leave the clueless white lady in the dust, and it harms approximately no one. This is fine, and the right thing to do.

Then what is she claiming? Why bring up your native ancestry at all?

She’ll still be a fine presidential candidate. Let’s not rip her to shreds before she even starts.

Well the main thing Warren screwed up on is she played Trump’s game. I don’t care how rock hard accurate the test is, it could have said she was 80% Native American and the Trump will still say the same thing. The GOP does not care about facts. The Dems need to give up the whole premise that if they give ground to the…

Yup. Genetically we’re basically the same and we can be closer genetically to someone from a completely different ethnic group than someone from our own ethnic group. The difference that separates us is the shared experiences of ethnicities, and if you didn’t grow up in a culture you shouldn’t try to claim it. Those…

Can we please be done pretending that Warren's presidential bid has legs? I mean, that's what this is all about, right?

the “my great great great great great grandmother was a cherokee princess” thing needs to fucking die already. Not only is it usually inaccurate, irrelevant to whether a person is actually native, and part of the “blood quantum” shit, it’s also only ever trotted out when someone is either trying to prove that they…