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In reply to the discussion: Warren listed race as 'American Indian' on Texas bar registration [View all]Hortensis
(58,785 posts)pretty boringly northern and middle European, so no opportunity to get my inner Inuit counted for once. But I'm talking especially about all the people who chose then, and still do, to highlight truths about minority parts of them, instead of just checking the usual overwhelmingly represented "white" part.
Fwiw, I don't feel it's appropriate to refuse to "buy" what is true for others. Just a guess, but I suspect most people who choose to emphasize minority representation will be liberals, at least socially, so those who don't think that way may need to try to stretch a bit to understand. Whatever, denying that others can have various decent motives for doing what you would not, especially when they explain that they do, is not exactly a path to the truth you value.
A couple facts that don't fit your opinion and should at least cause suspending is that Warren never benefited professionally or lucratively from the actions in question, could never have benefited because of the substantiation that would be required, and could never pass in person for being anything more than a typical inheritor from a distant ancestor.