{"id":14113,"date":"2012-05-09T12:10:31","date_gmt":"2012-05-09T16:10:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=14113"},"modified":"2012-05-09T12:10:31","modified_gmt":"2012-05-09T16:10:31","slug":"live-by-identity-politics-die-by-identity-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/14113\/live-by-identity-politics-die-by-identity-politics\/","title":{"rendered":"Live by Identity Politics, Die by Identity Politics"},"content":{"rendered":"

We’re still early in the 2012 election cycle, but it’s going to be tough to top Massachusetts Democratic Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren’s diversity scandal (which I’m dubbing “Tipigate”) for irony.<\/p>\n

As Ashton noted here<\/a> last week, Warren — who has been liberalism’s “it girl” of the past few years — is in hot water after it emerged that she claimed Cherokee ancestry during her time as a member of the Harvard faculty.<\/p>\n

According to a new piece by Alex Pappas in the Daily Caller<\/a>, not only is the Cherokee connection dubious (the Warren relative in question was referred to as “white” in the census count), the family tree isn’t exactly Native American-friendly:<\/p>\n

Cornell Law School professor William A. Jacobson, citing a genealogist, claimed Tuesday that Massachusetts Senate hopeful Elizabeth Warren’s ancestry includes a great-great-great grandfather who helped round up Cherokees in the days leading to the Trail of Tears.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Warren, of course, shouldn’t be held responsible for the vices of her forebears. But consistency would dictate that she thus has no claim on their virtues either.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We’re still early in the 2012 election cycle, but it’s going to be tough to top Massachusetts Democratic Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren’s diversity scandal (which I’m dubbing “Tipigate”) for irony. As Ashton noted here last week, Warren — who has been liberalism’s “it girl” of the past few years — is in hot water after […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2034,3526,2975,3527,159,725],"class_list":["post-14113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-2012-election","tag-diversity","tag-elizabeth-warren","tag-hyprocrisy","tag-massachusetts","tag-scott-brown"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14113"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14116,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14113\/revisions\/14116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}