The Elizabeth Warren v. Scott Brown thread

[Color Me Badd Fan]

Probably not deserving of its own thread, but this campaign has been a source of high comedy over the past few days. Basically, it was revealed that Elizabeth Warren listed herself as a minority professor while she was working at other universities before she landed her position at Harvard Law School. Then when she gets to Harvard Law School, she drops the minority moniker. The inference that is being drawn is that she used her supposed minority status to advance. Then when she got where she wanted to be, she dropped it so people wouldn't make assumption about how she got there.

Is Elizabeth Warren a minority? Well, that was also revealed and she's 1/32 Native American. Her great-great-great Grandmother was, I think, Cherokee. Her one drop, or 3 drops per 100, of Native American blood was apparently enough to designate her a minority.

I heard someone call her Elizabeth "Dances With Socialism" Warren. I thought that was funny. Another one -- Fauxcahontas.

[Clark Addison]

A friend of Parrot Head's is currently on a similar journey to an ivy league school.

[San Juan Sun]

"Dances with Socialism"

LOL

[Surfah]

Probably not deserving of its own thread, but this campaign has been a source of high comedy over the past few days. Basically, it was revealed that Elizabeth Warren listed herself as a minority professor while she was working at other universities before she landed her position at Harvard Law School. Then when she gets to Harvard Law School, she drops the minority moniker. The inference that is being drawn is that she used her supposed minority status to advance. Then when she got where she wanted to be, she dropped it so people wouldn't make assumption about how she got there.

Is Elizabeth Warren a minority? Well, that was also revealed and she's 1/32 Native American. Her great-great-great Grandmother was, I think, Cherokee. Her one drop, or 3 drops per 100, of Native American blood was apparently enough to designate her a minority.

I heard someone call her Elizabeth "Dances With Socialism" Warren. I thought that was funny. Another one -- Fauxcahontas.

Her explanation is hilarious.

Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren said Wednesday she listed herself as having Native American heritage in law school directories because she hoped to meet people with similar roots.

Warren, a Harvard Law School professor, said she never tried to use minority status to get teaching jobs and criticized the campaign of Republican Massachusetts Sen. Scott Brown for suggesting that may have been the case.

“I listed myself in the directory in the hopes that might mean that I would be invited to a luncheon, a group, something that might happen with people who are like I am,” Warren said during a campaign appearance in Braintree, according to the Boston Herald.

The listing did not produce any such contacts, and she later stopped using it, Warren said.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/nation...KxT_story.html

[Pheidippides]

Probably not deserving of its own thread, but this campaign has been a source of high comedy over the past few days. Basically, it was revealed that Elizabeth Warren listed herself as a minority professor while she was working at other universities before she landed her position at Harvard Law School. Then when she gets to Harvard Law School, she drops the minority moniker. The inference that is being drawn is that she used her supposed minority status to advance. Then when she got where she wanted to be, she dropped it so people wouldn't make assumption about how she got there.

Is Elizabeth Warren a minority? Well, that was also revealed and she's 1/32 Native American. Her great-great-great Grandmother was, I think, Cherokee. Her one drop, or 3 drops per 100, of Native American blood was apparently enough to designate her a minority.

I heard someone call her Elizabeth "Dances With Socialism" Warren. I thought that was funny. Another one -- Fauxcahontas.

Wow.

I am as much Lakota as she is Cherokee. What's more, I spent a significant part of my childhood studying and camping in the Lakota style (tipis, making clothes out of buckskin, etc.). I consciously decided not to claim Native American on any of my law school applications because I thought it was dishonest and cheap - something I was grateful for when I made a good friend who was Navajo.

What a lying ass.

[DU Ute]

“I listed myself in the directory in the hopes that might mean that I would be invited to a luncheon, a group, something that might happen with people who are like I am,” Warren said during a campaign appearance in Braintree, according to the Boston Herald.

The listing did not produce any such contacts, and she later stopped using it, Warren said.

She'll be happy to know I found someone "like she is"

[Color Me Badd Fan]

This is comedy gold.

Elizabeth "Dances With Occupiers" Warren talks about how her grandfather had high cheekbones like "all indians do."

[RobinFinderson]

Faith is about the same percent Native American, but I have always thought the small genetic heritage is quite strongly expressed in her appearance. Like Warren, Faith has also long felt a sense of pride in the heritage as well as a curiosity to learn more about what this line of ancestors were like. Let us get one thing straight -- at least one line of Elizabeth Warren's ancestors trails back through the primitive forests of North America. While this isn't my heritage, it is easy for me to imagine how this link could capture the imagination of someone whose great-great-great grandparent was an American Indian. It is ironic that Mormons, whose church does so much to foster a connection between members of families through the ages, would be so quick to judge Warren's explanation as disingenuous.

Nikuman, your post was also very amusing. I liked the way you admitted to having contemplated claiming this sliver of your heritage, and a moment later you are calling Ms. Warren a liar for considering the same question, but arriving at a different conclusion.

[Jacob]

Wow. Look at her flailing here. Parphrase:"I'm Indian because my great aunt used to say that my papaw had high ckeeck bones--like the Indians." Seems like she should be trying to dismiss this as irrelevant rather than making a ridiculous defense. I love that Scott Brown will continue to hold "the Kennedy seat" for 6 more years.
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[Jacob]

Nikuman, your post was also very amusing. I liked the way you admitted to having contemplated claiming this sliver of your heritage, and a moment later you are calling Ms. Warren a liar for considering the same question, but arriving at a different conclusion.

Only Robin could make such a condemnation. Two people contemplate telling a lie and only one of them tells the lie. The one who didn't is equally as culpable as the one who did.

[Color Me Badd Fan]

So, Elizabeth Warren got her law degree from Rutgers. Every other law professor at Harvard got their degrees from a top 10 school. Also, Warren was also the first minority woman to join the faculty, at least she was a minority at the time of her hiring. It no longer seemed important after she got the job.

[Pheidippides]

Faith is about the same percent Native American, but I have always thought the small genetic heritage is quite strongly expressed in her appearance. Like Warren, Faith has also long felt a sense of pride in the heritage as well as a curiosity to learn more about what this line of ancestors were like. Let us get one thing straight -- at least one line of Elizabeth Warren's ancestors trails back through the primitive forests of North America. While this isn't my heritage, it is easy for me to imagine how this link could capture the imagination of someone whose great-great-great grandparent was an American Indian. It is ironic that Mormons, whose church does so much to foster a connection between members of families through the ages, would be so quick to judge Warren's explanation as disingenuous.

Nikuman, your post was also very amusing. I liked the way you admitted to having contemplated claiming this sliver of your heritage, and a moment later you are calling Ms. Warren a liar for considering the same question, but arriving at a different conclusion.

By "contemplated," I mean "crossed my mind," exactly in the same way I contemplated killing the driver who cut me off this morning for two nanoseconds before I came to my senses and realized it was a crazy an immoral thing to do. That kind of contemplation.

[RobinFinderson]

Only Robin could make such a condemnation. Two people contemplate telling a lie and only one of them tells the lie. The one who didn't is equally as culpable as the one who did.

But it isn't a lie, and that wasn't my point. Two people contemplated noting their Indian heritage for two different reasons, nikuman in order to take advantage of an admissions benefit, and Warren (if we take her at her word) in order to reach out to other students and alumni with similar ancestry. Because nikuman can't imagine any other reason for claiming the heritage besides the one that he contemplated, he projects his own motives onto Warren.

The question here is why are people not taking Warren at her word? Has it even been established that her claiming this sliver of her heritage played any role in her admissions?

[Surfah]

.The question here is why are people not taking Warren at her word?

Because she is lying.

[TripletDaddy]

Isn't there a minimum blood ratio required to claim Indian heritage? What is the rule? If she doesn't meet the requirement, she can't claim it. If she meets the requirement, who cares what she claims?