I'm agreeing w/ it being a bad look - but I'd like to see us defend our progressive champions with bit more fervor. I personally wouldn't want to dismiss her decades of important work for this one blunder (which is an unsightly one).

Also - my understanding is that her family raised her w/ the understanding that she was part Native American (without knowing how much of it was in her ancestry). If that's the case, I don't want to crucify her for claiming that when it was part of her family's oral history (even though it later turned out to be largely inaccurate).

But yes - it is a bad look - but in the grand scheme of things when our political opponents are playing hardball and ruthless in their propping up of all these bad actors and horrible human beings, I don't think it serves us to be so outraged against our progressive champions for something like this.


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