She claims to be partly Native American, it is not unreasonable to request that she proves it.
lets change our perspective here: is it reasonable to require someone to take a genetic test? NO
When the person in question is a major politician and claims to be a part of minority race that she looks nothing like? Yes.
Btw, I am not talking forcing her by law or court order or some such.
just the court of public opinion then?
Yep, just the court of public opinion.
i mean, this doens’t really matter in the slightest.
I don’t know, but maybe actual Native Americans don’t want politicians to falsely claim to be a member of their group? (I can’t claim that to be the case, but others in the thread can’t claim that not to be the case.
I am fairly confident that Elizabeth Warren did not kowningly lie about her herritage, but if she did, we can’t know that from a test. I mean, her family history that tells her that she is part cherokee could be simply mistaken.
How do we know her family history really says that? How do we know she didn’t make the whole thing up?
So why should she take a test? there is no upside to that.
If the DNA came back positive, we’d know she was telling the truth, if came back negative we’d know odds are that she made the whole thing up.
If she is not lying, why not take the test? What does she have to hide?