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That depends on what the institution means by diversity, of course. Has it occured to you that many tribes/individuals have largely assimilated by this time? They may even wear blue jeans to the potluck.
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"Ethnicity isn't something we think about, here at Harvard. I have no idea what gave Warren the impression she should include it on her resume. What? We publish the ethnicity of our more diverse faculty members? Haha, oops! What a misunderstanding, for sure! 'Pocahontas'... That's a good one. Well played, but really, the President shouldn't take diversity so seriously. After all, Harvard doesn't."
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It bears mentioning that they were federally mandated diversity statistics. Don't know if that will change anyone's mind about anything in particular...
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I think this may be partly a question of Americans not being used to a woman's voice in a position of authority (except in grade school, maybe), and partly women trying too hard to strike a tone that isn't called "bitchy," "strident" or other pejorative terms. Lots of people probably don't like Nancy Pelosi's voice either.
It's like, when white men started shaving their heads they all looked like skinheads to me. Now it doesn't strike me that way at all, as long as they've got at least a little bit of a tan. Shaved heads are just normal. So maybe we should just find someone with likeable voice and train them up to be president. |
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Frankly, I think this is all much ado about nothing. The only reason it's even being discussed is because of Trump's offensive bullying and name calling and his supporters need to defend his behavior. I am not saying you are a Trump supporter. I think you have your own reasons that don't include being part of the Trump base. I don't give a diddley squat if Warren is part Cherokee or not. I don't care if her contributions to a cookbook in 1984 were handed down in her family or not. I do find it the height of hypocrisy, but unsurprising, that Trump would have the gall to call anyone out for lying. Focusing on this when Trump tells provable lies day after day, month after month, year after year is nothing but a diversion from Trump's lies. |
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I'm just glad we cleared up that the cookbook was zero bad, because it's just fine for people of mixed genes to mix memes.
Looking forward to the next round of baseless accusations, though. |
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Why are we talking about this? Ignore the name and find a good attack ad for her opponent. The way you deal with this is find everyone who is talking about it and then find who they had affairs with, their DUI's, their kids in rehab, wife's debt hiding and character assassinate the **** out of them. Democrats need to stop being wimps.
They learned nothing from 2004. Why the hell can any member of Swift Boat Veterans for Truth show their faces in public? Everyone of them should have been choked on their dirty laundry. You want to talk about John Kerry's service, we'll talk about your affair. You say, Hillary gave uranium to the Russians? We find the guy from whom you got a hand job and drugs from to hide your sexuality and self medicate your PTSD. Hannity wouldn't grouse about Uranium One if the penalty for bringing it up was CNN finding (with help) every intern who worked at Fox News who he put a hand on. Warren shouldn't worry about being called on her lineage. She needs to think about how she destroys anyone who brings it up. |
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23+and other such services know that being desirous of First Immigrant status is a thing. So they tell me I am 2% too, with my C5Cxx mitochondrial genes. FIs are C1,2,3, and 7. All C';s are from east Asia. But some migrated across the land bridge, others went west to Europe. I am not Indian, I am Lithuanian. Unless when the Aliens in their UFOs were done probing Yata-ye they dropped him off on the wrong continent.
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My niece is 1/4 Mexican. By her senior year in high school all of us had forgotten about having put her down as 'Mexican' on some papers back in elementary school. Turned out she was a National Hispanic Scholar. She got recruited by all the BIG IVY schools. She took the scholarship to Cornell. (quarter Mexican, but half Lithuanian
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Is anyone here claiming that? I think we all know preferential treatment exists. It all goes back to when slaves were preferred to have one drop of black blood, blacks were preferred to live in other neighborhoods, and even currently when latinos are preferred to be on the other side of a border wall and blacks are preferred to not be driving or hanging out where they appear out of place.
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