Listen: Mary Katherine Ham and Guy Benson Check Sen. Elizabeth Warren's Privilege

TheBlaze Books ^ | 2015-06-11 | Benjamin Weingarten

[fredericbastiat1]

Guy Benson: In “End of Discussion” we have a really fun, very short portion of a chapter that deals with this whole nomenclature on college campuses of “trigger warnings” and “privilege” — there’s a whole list of them. “Microaggressions” is a big one.

And towards the end of this chapter on academia we examine the very interesting case of Elizabeth Warren, who is a white woman. That is – the science is in, and she is a white woman. Yet for years, she identified, self-identified wrongly based on family folklore that she was a Native American. And she benefited tremendously on her career trajectory by checking the box to say “I’m a very small, sought after minority,” and finally stopped self-identifying as a Native American once she had tenure at Harvard Law School at the peak of her career.

And we’re like “Woah!” The privilege checking community is so obsessed with checking your privilege — this is a woman who invented a privilege.

[notaliberal]

When she and Juan Williams are on...I turn to another channel.....or she and anyone else.

[Calvin Locke]

Harvard had an Indian School at one point. I’ve seen the plague on it’s former main building in Cambridge.

[Paine in the Neck]

[The Great RJ]

My wife has Native American ancestry to the same degree claimed by Elizabeth Warren. However my wife has a DNA profile that confirms that ancestry. She could have legally used that ancestry to advance her career in academia contrary to Warren who lied a lie.