Juno News - October 16, 2018


Elizabeth Warren's obscure aboriginal heritage is identity politics in action

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Andrew Lutton
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Elizabeth Warren Lindsey Graham
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3 minutes

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627

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36

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6

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Elizabeth Warren has been vindicated. Yes, after years and years of claiming Aboriginal heritage, she was able to prove it. After all, she went back to a generation that had over a thousand ancestors. But no, one of them was Aboriginal. And well, that proves it.

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00:00:00.520 Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren has been vindicated.
00:00:04.300 Yes, after years and years of claiming Aboriginal heritage, she was able to prove it. 0.96
00:00:09.620 She found one Aboriginal ancestor when she went back to a generation that had over a thousand ancestors.
00:00:16.560 But no, one of the thousand. One of the thousand ancestors was Aboriginal.
00:00:21.640 And well, that proves it. The joke is on all of us, right?
00:00:24.320 In fairness, she never said how much Aboriginal heritage she had, just that it existed.
00:00:29.460 And well, we couldn't prove a negative.
00:00:31.680 All she had to do is prove that one person along the way happened to stop for a few seconds on a native territory.
00:00:37.100 And boom, she all of a sudden justified invoking that heritage to gain preferential treatment on a law school application. 0.99
00:00:45.100 Now, of course, she is using this as part of a ramping up for a presumable presidential bid in 2020. 1.00
00:00:52.100 She's launched a whole website extolling her heritage and talking about the family heritage,
00:00:57.580 as though this is more than just one person, which statistically is basically an anomaly.
00:01:03.040 But here's the thing.
00:01:04.220 The Elizabeth Warren Aboriginal heritage debacle is the inevitable byproduct of identity politics, especially on the left.
00:01:11.640 You see, the left has prioritized special identity victim groups to such an extent
00:01:16.400 that it's the best thing a liberal politician can do to find some obscure connection.
00:01:21.280 And we mean really obscure to be able to say that they are a part of one of these victim groups that they hold up on a pedestal above all else.
00:01:29.480 You know, the left has demonized white people and white males and anyone that they believe is part of the patriarchy or part of the power class or the ruling class.
00:01:38.040 So if Elizabeth Warren can pull herself out of that, she gets to capitalize off of this victim culture that the left has tried to create. 1.00
00:01:45.860 And this is not an indictment of the Aboriginal population in Canada or the U.S.
00:01:50.120 In fact, it's Aboriginals that seem to be the most outraged by Elizabeth Warren claiming she's one of them
00:01:56.040 just because a distant, distant, distant, distant, distant to the nth degree relative was one of them.
00:02:02.000 And even then, not necessarily a full Cherokee-blooded person directly.
00:02:07.120 This great-great-great-grandparent Elizabeth Warren often speaks of.
00:02:10.600 But she's decided to go nuclear on this and in the end has made more of a mockery of herself. 1.00
00:02:16.340 I think the only winner here is the company 23andMe, which surely I should have bought shares in a couple of days ago
00:02:22.240 because now everyone's trying to out-Aboriginal Elizabeth Warren with their own DNA test, including Lindsey Graham. 0.87
00:02:28.880 But this is a cautionary tale to people on the left.
00:02:31.700 If you're going to make these claims, you better be prepared to back them up.
00:02:35.440 And she had to really dig to find something.
00:02:37.940 And even then, that doesn't seem to be ameliorating any of the concerns that people are raising about her.
00:02:43.480 But she's moving this out of the way. 1.00
00:02:45.420 By the time she runs for president, she'll be able to tell anyone who criticizes her about this,
00:02:49.900 oh, I dealt with that already.
00:02:52.080 Well, you may have dealt with it in the technical sense,
00:02:55.140 but you haven't addressed the root cause of why it was so advantageous for you to claim that status in the first place.
00:03:00.840 Because you created a culture that put people with Aboriginal blood on a higher level than anyone else. 0.64
00:03:08.420 And Aboriginals stand to lose the most from that,
00:03:10.680 which is why they're so offended at becoming Elizabeth Warren's tokens.
00:03:14.560 For the True North Initiative, I'm Andrew Lutton.
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