A few weeks ago (here), I suggested that Elizabeth Warren was afraid to get a DNA test because of what it might show (namely, that she has no Indian genes). But now it seems like the real reason is that she feels no political need to do it since she has no idea why Trump is calling her Pocahontas (except as a racial slur). See here for an account from Powerline about a press briefing at the White House. She and all the other Democrats are in a bubble, though “bubble” is really the wrong word here. Bubbles are transparent so that you are able to look out if you like. They are in more of a cocoon so that they cannot see out.
In this case, all the Democrats can hear is that Trump used a racial slur against Warren. The fact that everyone on the right thinks she is despicable for claiming to be Indian while not actually being one is something they just can’t wrap their heads around. So long as everyone in her camp isn’t even worried about her lying and is only concerned about a racial slur, then why should she bother getting a DNA test? It probably hasn’t even occurred to her to get one, and somehow no one who thinks she should get one has ever managed to break through her cocoon and tell her to do so.
But this speaks of the ridiculous gulf between the two parties. Democrats should be able to express Trump’s viewpoint, even if they disagree with it. But it seems they are unable to do so. The same is true about other issues. I have yet to see anyone on the left who uses the word “Islamophobia” who can state my position and the evidence for it in even the most basic terms. Almost no leftist using that term seems familiar with the massacre of leftists by Muslims in Iran back in 1979. Nor do they see any threat to their own movement from bringing in people who are hostile to leftism (and most everything else about the West). If you can’t state your opponent's viewpoint, then you are sadly lacking in debating skills, and you really should demand your money back from your college (assuming you went to college, which is generally true of leftists).
So, is it a racial slur, as the Democrats think? Consider an analogy. Imagine some guy claiming to have served in the armed forces, except that they have no records of his service, no other soldier remembers him, and even his own family members doubt his claim. If people started calling him “soldier boy” in a sneering voice, would that be a slur against all soldiers? Of course not.