In this column, the author insists that Donald Trump is winning the war over Elizabeth Warren, that he has branded her as a fake Indian and that she won’t be able to shake it. That's pretty remarkable, if true.
Meanwhile, here is a completely different perspective that claims that only Indian tribes get to decide who is one of them and that three different Cherokee tribes had looked at her ancestry a few years ago and concluded she was not one of them. From that perspective, it doesn’t matter if she gets a DNA test or not.
All of this matters because it speaks to her political beliefs. As a commenter at the first link puts it:
And thus, a graduate of Rutgers Law School winds up as a tenured professor at Harvard Law School. Anyone who understands the downward pressures in academia, and especially law which is all about prestige, know that’s only slightly more likely than tossing a stone in the air and having it carry all the way to the moon.
In other words, she got to the top not on talent, but on claiming to be what she wasn't: an Indian. Not only did she lie about her background, but her action meant that someone else more deserving may have missed out. But we can say even more. What should she have done in this situation? As an egalitarian, she should have protested against what is obviously an inegalitarian system. But instead of doing that, she cheated her way to the top, and such an action does nothing to enhance egalitarianism. The academic left is filled with people who know that academia is not at all egalitarian, and yet they say and do nothing.
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