Victor Davis Hanson
The real story is not that the multimillionaire blond liberal, one-percenter Warren fabricated a Cherokee identity for over a decade (to the delight of her quota-thirsty universities), but rather the notion that if a pink blond at Harvard can get away with faking a career-enhancing minority identity, then anyone, anywhere can—or rather often has.
...Warren simply by fiat claimed high cheekbones—no beads, no trips to the reservation, no buckskin, no Churchillian effort. Note the connivance of Harvard, which hand-in-glove used Warren’s pseudo-identity to pad its “diversity” goals, which enable a mostly white yuppie left-wing faculty to, well, not feel too guilty about remaining a mostly white yuppie left-wing faculty.
He notes that it's the Left that cares most about your ancestry:
... given that our present-day Jim Crow racialists are busy figuring out to what degree pigment, ethnic ancestry, nomenclature or assumed identity “counts”.
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