The Confederate Mind
7th April 2018
Victor Davis Hanson notices some parallels.
Progressives such as Elizabeth Warren resurrect the race-based thinking of the antebellum South: ‘One drop’ and you’re a bona fide minority.
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In her past incarnations, she probably used that yarn in hopes of helping her win a law professorship at Harvard, which touted her as the law school’s first indigenous-American professor (and others apparently referenced her as Harvard Law’s “first woman of color”). She has refused to back down (and also refused to take a DNA test), even after Native American genealogists disputed her claim.
Diversity! It’s not just for breakfast any more.
In the racist South, some minorities sought to pass to claim white status; in racialist 21st-century America, some whites seek to pass to claim minority status. The common denominator in both cases is the contemporary society’s racial fixations — and the absurdity of needing to claim a particular racial status to gain advantages.
April 7th, 2018 at 21:52
An interesting subject – esp. with respect to Ms. Warren. Native Americans have been fighting with the US government over benefits. I believe the feds consider you to be eligible if you are up to 1/64th Native American. Obviously, those with less want to be eligible.
Meanwhile, on the Left/Progressive/Pinko/Commie/Soros side of the fence, if you once ate at a soul food diner, you qualify as a minority.
Playing God with defining your divine DNA status is extremely attractive to the monster egos in Washington. It would be extremely funny if they weren’t using our money to play.