Apparently, Elizabeth Warren got a DNA test

[conuly]

This, I feel, is at best a waste of money and at worst a complete tactical error.

Obviously the Trumpers don't really care about her DNA. They just want to mock her in the most offensive way possible. They're not going to believe her (or even remember that they didn't bother to believe her) any more than they believed Obama about his birth certificate. Responding to them just lends them credibility and dignity that they thoroughly don't deserve.

Instead, she ought to be focusing on the people who matter, which is, those of us who might ever vote for her. And I don't think any of us care either. A great many people who aren't Native still have some Native American ancestry. Big deal! What she ought to do is mea culpa about calling herself Native American when she isn't tribally enrolled, which would show that she took the time to educate herself, which I think we all do care about, at least a little more than whether or not one of her distant ancestors was maybe Native American or not.

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[julian]

In re: networking -- Per the Globe, yes.

But that still plays into the "these people get unfair advantages!" narrative, which is rank bullshit. (Which, I mean, I don't need to tell anyone *here* that, it's just all over Twitter and it bugs me.)

[conuly]

What advantages!? They're more likely to live in poverty, more likely to be disenfranchised, and more likely to be shot by the cops.

[julian]

Specifically regarding affirmative action types of things in academia. (And I mean, they're mischaracterizing it when they talk about it anyway, because Republican attacking points are no longer anchored in actual reality.)

So the point is, they're harping on an inaccurate thing, and she accepted their framing of it.

(And also accepted the White People idea of genetics mattering but that seems to be a thing she buys into, rather than a thing she was maneuvered into politically.)