And here we fucking go.

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.

If you actually had read or understood those comments, they were all saying it is was damned if she did or didn’t. It doesn’t matter if she were 1% or 100% Cherokee, they’ll still scream and shout at her anyway because Trump and the GOP don’t care about the facts and truth. This was less about “shutting up” Trump and…

I won’t sit quietly for @realdonaldtrump’s racism, so I took a test. But DNA & family history has nothing to do with tribal affiliation or citizenship, which is determined only – only – by Tribal Nations. I respect the distinction, & don’t list myself as Native in the Senate.

I don’t think she’s trying to claim it to wear like a scarf at all.  She made the claim long ago during her student days based upon family stories.  She’s been called out repeatedly for that claim in her career and had a spotlight shone on it by Trump.  This is her effort not to claim she’s part of a tribe, but more…

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

A little background:

does the Splinter staff wake up every morning and think, “What can I do today to diminish leftist voter enthusiasm in the runup to this, the last election standing between what’s left of American democracy and outright fascism?”?

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…

She said her mom’s family was discriminated against by their community because they had an “injun in the woodpile.” That forced her mom and dad to say adieu to their racist, hick-ass, backwater community and build a life where transgressions of generations past aren’t still held against you.

This article distresses me. My grandfather was disowned by his tribe and left in an orphanage because (we think) he was half-black. For my life, I haven’t put it on any official forms, but I’ve told many people about my ancestry. The idea that someone could take away my ancestry and my history, isn’t hard to…

Stop the Trumpeteers first.

Did anyone actually watch her video?

So I know my own, personal, anecdote doesn’t prove anything but here we go.