1. 'Elizabeth Warren's 'Native American' claims: if she was a Republican, the media would call her a racist
2. Imagine if a Republican candidate claimed, confidently, that she was part Native American. Imagine if she had actually used that identity to have herself listed as a minority at Harvard, qualifying her for special treatment and celebration as proof of how diverse and progressive her department is. Imagine if, many years later, it turned out that her claims to Native heritage were dubious and, when pressed for proof, she offered her high cheekbones. Oh, and she once contributed a recipe to a Native American cookbook called Pow Wow Chow (that may even have been plagiarised).
3. ...not only has she been given a pass by her party, which normally treats race with the respect it deserves, but also by the mainstream media. Last night she was chatting with Chris Matthews on MSNBC and Matthews failed to mention the scandal once.
4. Race shapes a lot of the way that Democrats think about economics and social justice and within that narrative, Native Americans were the very first minority that the Europeans oppressed on American soil. It thus ought to be not just odd but immoral that Warren would try to borrow their heritage of suffering in order to advance her political career.
5. Worse still, the Harvard Law Journal described her as a woman of color, as if it was translating her claimed identity into proof that it was reaching out to African-Americans. A lot of liberals invested a lot of emotional effort into sustaining this myth. This sort of thing is just as inappropriate as Mitt Romney suddenly claiming to be the descendent of slaves.
6. ...the liberal media has tried to smooth the story over. ... headlines have been massaged, innuendoes have gone unreported, and only one local paper has pursued Warren with the righteousness that the issue deserves. Articles have been written expressing sympathy along the lines of Well, were probably all a little bit Native American. The Matthews softball interview is only a representative pass.
7. The takeaway from all of this is that racial insensitivity only matters if its done by a Republican.
8. But Democrats can have records of racist activity (the former Senate Majority Leader, Robert Byrd, was a member of the KKK in his youth), express racist sentiments towards Asians (step forward, Marion Barry) and appropriate the racial heritage of others and no one seems to mind.
9. When it comes to racism, the Democratic credo is Do as I say, not as I do. '
Elizabeth Warren's 'Native American' claims: if she was a Republican, the media would call her a racist Telegraph Blogs
2. Imagine if a Republican candidate claimed, confidently, that she was part Native American. Imagine if she had actually used that identity to have herself listed as a minority at Harvard, qualifying her for special treatment and celebration as proof of how diverse and progressive her department is. Imagine if, many years later, it turned out that her claims to Native heritage were dubious and, when pressed for proof, she offered her high cheekbones. Oh, and she once contributed a recipe to a Native American cookbook called Pow Wow Chow (that may even have been plagiarised).
3. ...not only has she been given a pass by her party, which normally treats race with the respect it deserves, but also by the mainstream media. Last night she was chatting with Chris Matthews on MSNBC and Matthews failed to mention the scandal once.
4. Race shapes a lot of the way that Democrats think about economics and social justice and within that narrative, Native Americans were the very first minority that the Europeans oppressed on American soil. It thus ought to be not just odd but immoral that Warren would try to borrow their heritage of suffering in order to advance her political career.
5. Worse still, the Harvard Law Journal described her as a woman of color, as if it was translating her claimed identity into proof that it was reaching out to African-Americans. A lot of liberals invested a lot of emotional effort into sustaining this myth. This sort of thing is just as inappropriate as Mitt Romney suddenly claiming to be the descendent of slaves.
6. ...the liberal media has tried to smooth the story over. ... headlines have been massaged, innuendoes have gone unreported, and only one local paper has pursued Warren with the righteousness that the issue deserves. Articles have been written expressing sympathy along the lines of Well, were probably all a little bit Native American. The Matthews softball interview is only a representative pass.
7. The takeaway from all of this is that racial insensitivity only matters if its done by a Republican.
8. But Democrats can have records of racist activity (the former Senate Majority Leader, Robert Byrd, was a member of the KKK in his youth), express racist sentiments towards Asians (step forward, Marion Barry) and appropriate the racial heritage of others and no one seems to mind.
9. When it comes to racism, the Democratic credo is Do as I say, not as I do. '
Elizabeth Warren's 'Native American' claims: if she was a Republican, the media would call her a racist Telegraph Blogs
