“When we all got on the conference call together, Smith refused to talk with the rest of us about it,” Barker wrote. “She got on the call, bursted into tears, said, ‘I can’t do this,’ and hung up.”
Smith I think has a desperate need to be a victim.
Kind of a Munchausen syndrome by proxy where a parent gets sympathetic attention by poisoning their child making them appear to have a terrible disease.
Smith and others like her get special attention and benefits of race politics by pretending to have the identity of a discriminated against minority.
Smith has built her own self-worth and identity upon being a member of this victim class. For her an emotional trauma to be told that she is not a member of this tribe. She is so invested in this fiction that she has built for herself that she feels justified in stealing the identity documents of a tribe member.
This kind of personality disorder is a product of our society’s focus of victimhood. I think that there a probably a great number of people in our society that have built these false identities for themselves. Some psychology doctoral student can probably write a major thesis on this phenomenon.
As opposed to Elizabeth Warren, who appears to be only a pure opportunist.