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I had lib friends that would do this native American thing. Their parents would lie or maybe have been lied to and say they had a lot of Cherokee in them. So these libs will make it part of their identity until the 23 and me results come in and they realize they're not that native after all. They take these identities on and off like they were fucking hats. Like, if a full blooded native American came up to me, said he was my dad, gave me all the documents to prove it, and it turned out I was over half Cherokee it wouldn't make me native American, that's just not my lived experience. If you think DNA factors into it you may as well break out the calipers and starting measuring your skull to see of you're allowed to celebrate Kwanzaa.

just this morning I saw a Tesla SUV with two bumper stickers: don't mess with Texas women (don't live in Texas), and one of those classic WARREN blues

This is my second traffic related post today. What up my fellow americans

They're like the lamest and most toxic kind of Disney Adult. Only Buttigieg/Harris supporters are stranger to me, and maybe Andrew Yang's if he still has them.

Her making such a big deal out of the DNA test just showed how much of a joke it was. Blood quantum is pretty controversial among American tribes because colonial subjugation and assimilation has pretty much made DNA tests useless for determining how indigenous someone is. For example, a decent number of escaped black slaves joined up with the tribes in the 1700s-1800s. Some of their descendants aren't indigenous by blood at all, they may take a test and find out that they are 100 percent African descent. But if your family has spent multiple generations living on the reservation, they shouldn't be denied membership because the white people running BIA decide they're not indigenous enough.

This goes the other way around as well. There are black people that don't have a lick of African ancestry. Not as common as the other way around, but I've met people like this. They still identify as a black family. Their family has been living the lives of black Americans, unaware of their indigenous and hispanic ancestry for generations until a couple years ago with the rise of 23andme type tests. Race is real, but it really is widely a social construct. I don't think it's reasonable to say my friend's family isn't black when they have been living as black people among other black people for generations.

I say all this to say that Elizabeth Warren could have come back with test results that prove that she's indigenous and it really wouldn't matter. Her and her family have lived as white people for generations. When it comes to modern American indigenous identities, DNA really doesn't mean shit

When you phrase it that way, it is curious that the only Warren supporters I've ever met were white labor aristocratic women. My friend's wife who works at Eli fucking Lilly of all places used to bag on me incessantly for not supporting her over Bernie. She was ironically very bought into the whole Bernie Bros stuff.

why would those women care, they also tell everyone they meet that they're 1.375% native or whatever

To be fair, which god knows I hesitate to do, these are all campaign staffers, so imagine the kind of person who signs up to campaign for Warren and it should be a little less confusing

I think it was because milquetoast women with the personalities of HR managers were excited for the representation.

(This is not meant as a dig against milquetoast women with the personalities of HR managers. Rock on, boring girls.)

Yeah not reading to the bottom of that one

It's the hexcode for that particular shade of green Warren used for her campaign

The fact that these people never stopped to think about the fact that it looked eerily reminiscent to a death camp tattoo is just further proof of how disconnected they are from the world

I think that's an unintended tone deaf consequence of the tattoo. Same with the first one looking like skinhead Nazi shit. These people got high off of their own supply of huffing each other's farts and genuinely did not consider the negative outcomes or consequences of their decisions with these tattoos.

"There's just something so intoxicating about this 'blood and soil' phrase, but I can't quite remember where I enjoy it from"

immediately, we need some media heat, to say that gangs run the street, and then we bring in the police fleet, harass and beat everybody till they look inebriated, when we bought the land, motherfuckers will appreciate it