Quote Originally Posted by Montmorency View Post
This is a caliber of stupidity approaching insolence. She never presented herself as Native American in public life. She talked about her family history. The DNA test corroborated the family history. The lack of judgement was in thinking her right-wing critics were concerned with that substance for its own sake.
She chose to list herself as "Native American", not "white" or "Mixed White and Native American".

She chose consciously to present herself, within her profession, as unambiguously native American.

This also has very little to do with Trump, as opposed to the Birther conspiracy which WAS supported early by Trump.

When she was confronted she initially doubled down.

If you think I'm wrong why has she now apologised? It's because she committed the cardinal Liberal sin of claiming an ethnic identity she was not, in their view, entitled to.