By pretending to be native American Warren was able to land a cushy teaching gig at Harvard where she was paid >$300,000 a year to teach one class.
Harvard made a big deal of her being a "woman of color" which means that effectively Warren stole a job from some real "woman of color". While she might have stolen her job from a Black or Hispanic women, because those minorities meet the need for "diversity" just as much as a native American woman would, it's native Americans who are most upset about this gross act of cultural appropriation.
The simple reality is that native Americans haven't been treated well in the US. To be fair part of that is due to the fact that they sided with the French in wars against the colonies and they, being pretty barbarous like Europeans were in the past, did rather horrible things like kidnap and rape women and enslave children which resulted in a lot of hatred of them by the Europeans.
To maintain their cultural identity native Americans have set up rules about what it means to be a real native American. It's not just about being 1/1024 native American it's about being affiliated with a tribe. That's why Indian organizations are incensed over Warren's claim.
In fact genetic studies have shown that the average white person in America has about the same amount of native American blood as Warren does. Which means that if she's a native American then everyone is a native American.
Warren was raised in a white household, her parents were white, her grandparents were white, her great grandparents were white in fact according to the test results she released the best case scenario is that 6 to 10 generations back she had one native American ancestor. That's best case because the test she took didn't actually compare her DNA to native American DNA but to the DNA of people who live in central America.
Clearly there is no way that Warren could be considered to be a native American by the standards set up by native American tribes and just as clearly she hasn't suffered any discrimination because of her 1/1024 native American pedigree.
Yet by pretending to be native American and by pretending that all she needs to do to show that she should benefit from affirmative action is show some infinitesimal level of native American ancestry she's undercutting real native Americans who have been discriminated against.
But that's Democrats for you; they say they care about minorities but given a chance they'll rip off minorities without blinking an eye.
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