harlemtechie t1_j9dtfu5 wrote
Reply to comment by [deleted] in George Santos — who is Catholic — insists he used to say he was 'Jew-ish' as a party joke. Now he says he's taken 4 DNA tests to prove his maternal grandparents are actually Jewish. by Grass8989
To be fair, Elizabeth Warren did it to my people and nothing happened.
Lovis_Iovis t1_j9ev0oh wrote
Didn’t she just say that her parents always told her that one of her ancestors was Cherokee, and she just believed them without checking?
Chimera-0ne t1_j9ewrmb wrote
People say a lot of things. Warren identified herself as Native American, contributed to Native American literature as if she practiced the culture, and was listed as Native American on official documents with both her employers and educators. She’s a piece of shit. There’s plenty of room for both her and Santos to be shitbag excuses for humans.
Lovis_Iovis t1_j9ex0gj wrote
Ah, I see. I knew about her checking a box on a college application, but didn’t know about her contributing to any literature or claiming to practice culture. Do you know of any examples?
Chimera-0ne t1_j9eyrxk wrote
Off the top of my head I remember there was a thing about her contributing to Native American cookbooks or something. I believe there was more, but I can’t look it up right this second.
mojogogo123 t1_j9f0we6 wrote
I believe the book was called "Pow Wow Chow"
harlemtechie t1_j9g2mvc wrote
I don't know why acknowledging this is being downvoted, unless no one really cares about cultural appropriation and the outrage is just political.... what Warren did was wrong AF. It's cool bc other Natives read my comments when I'm in other subs and they'll see the actual character of people and a lot don't like what she did....bc I feel many need to see it to see how people stay on their bs..
Chimera-0ne t1_j9f1hk4 wrote
Thought you were fucking with me, but yeah that’s the one.
harlemtechie t1_j9g0awl wrote
You should FKin check.
Lovis_Iovis t1_j9g6319 wrote
Should you? Maybe if it is important to you and you have the interest, but otherwise the family’s word is all a lot of people have.
harlemtechie t1_j9g76jj wrote
Pretendians are a big problem in our communities. We have many that do not know their culture and they come in and destroy it even more, we are allowed to be selfish about this or we'll have some fake made up ish that has nothing to do with the real thing. This is about cultural genocide.
Lovis_Iovis t1_j9ga9fu wrote
I see what you’re saying. There definitely would be a problem with speaking as an authority on a culture (like contributing a recipe to a cookbook, for example) without an authentic connection to that culture. But it is another thing to just say that you have the ancestry, and a superficial connection, based on your family’s word.
harlemtechie t1_j9gb8rb wrote
What was more damaging was that d*mn book she wrote. That's moreso what I'm getting at.
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