Is anyone else following this insanely stupid story at the moment?
US Senator Elizabeth Warren (who is white) has been claiming that she is part Native American, even going so far as to say she is proud of that ancestry and has allegedly cited it on university records. Donald Trump, not believing her, mocked her for it, last year at a rally boasting he would hypothetically give her a million dollars to donate to charity if she would take a DNA test to prove she was an American Indian.
Well, the results are in. Warren recently released DNA test results "Hitting back" and "Confirming her Native American ancestry" according to mainstream media sources like CNN and ABC and some British papers. Laughably, however, the test only estimated she was between 1/64 and 1/1024 Native American, and the test had to use South American DNA as a stand-in. This woman is technically whiter than infamous white nationalist Richard Spencer. She actually has less Native American DNA than the average white person in the US, yet she has gone on record claiming to have Cherokee lineage and claimed her mother was discriminated against for being part native. She apparently has no significant Native American ancestry at all.
So it boggles my mind that comedians like Steven Colbert, Trevor Noah and co. and media outlets are now portraying this as a victory for Warren and mocking Trump for being 'wrong' and for 'reneging on a bet' when it was clearly Warren who shot herself in the foot. If you want an example of the media completely misrepresenting something and being unashamedly biased despite the facts being right there, this is it.