Apparently, Elizabeth Warren got a DNA test

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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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[ysabetwordsmith]

I will never criticize anyone for choosing not to participate in the institutionalized racism of tribal enrollment. Native isn't just about genetics, and it certainly isn't about a card issued by white people. It's culture and craft and language, but most of all, a way of looking at the world that's just very different from how most mainstream Americans see it. And that? She has it. She's one of the very few public figures who does.

I still think it's fucking hilarious that he thinks calling her by the name of a famous historic figure is somehow an insult.