Posted on 07/08/2018 3:27:35 PM PDT by EdnaMode
The era of Maury-Povich politics is officially upon us, after President Donald Trump suggested at a rally in Montana last week that Senator Elizabeth Warren be subjected to a DNA test.
I shouldnt tell you cause I like not to give away secrets Lets say Im debating Pocahontas, the president said, reviving his favorite racist nickname for the senator. You know those little kits they sell on television for $2 Im gonna get one of those little kits and in the middle of the debate, when she proclaims that shes of Indian heritage, because her mother says she has high cheekbones we will take that little kit but we have to do it gently, because we are in the Me Too generation I will give you $1 million to your favorite charity, paid for by Trump, if you take the test and it shows youre an Indian I have a feeling she will say no.
Trump isnt the first to recommend that Warren take such a test. All the senator needs to do is spit into a tube, wait a few weeks and get her answer, the Berkshire Eagles editorial board wrote in March. But now the president is daring a potential 2020 challenger take a DNA test. Once again, Trump is setting a dangerous precedent.
Shortly after the 2008 presidential election, the New England Journal of Medicine published a perspective titled The Genetic Privacy of Presidential Candidates, which warned politicians running for office about a threat it called genetic McCarthyism. Because genetic information is so easily misinterpreted and misrepresented, the authors argued, presidential campaigns should resist calls to release candidates genomic information and pledge not to attempt to obtain or release the genomic information of their opponents.
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First he is peeing in Obamas bed, now hes tossing his DNA on a helpless Indian Senator. For a germophobe, hes awfully leaky.
The only genetic high risk conspiracy theory I can think of would relate to Obama's parentage. And that one was always a real stretch.
Challenging someone to prove a claim they made to advance their career is McCarthyism?
You cant fix stupid, and this author is stupid.
That LIBs are allowed to intermingle their DNA with the normal population is a crime against humanity.
I would imagine she's already taken the test and knows the answer. By the way, does she have any siblings who could take the test?
“Genetic McCarthyism”?
There is a white lady named Rachael that says she IDs as black.
No one believes her.
Is that genetic McCarthyism too?
Truly, if they are to believe "global warming" then they must believe in genetic testing—testing which is a dozen orders of magnitude more settled and accurate than "global warming". The idea that you accept "global warming" but reject the proven science of genetics is preposterous.
>>By the way, does she have any siblings who could take the test?
That, would be epic.
Someone follow her kids, or a siblings around. Grab a cig butt, or a glass they used, get it DNA tested. Post results. Laugh at Warren more.
Word smiths keep making shiat up...WTF is Genetic McCarthyism = lmao!
How many Sub-Saharan African genes does Rachel Dolezal have?
Elizabeth Warren is a lying squaw wannabe.
Yes McCarthy WAS RIGHT!!!!
Yep, but the ends justify the means so they tell us.
Identity politics and cultural appropriation IS genetic McCarthyism! You can’t have it both ways, dumbass.
What is fascinating about fake news stories is how they follow a pattern.
Say immigration. Take a fact and then create an emotional analogy that while not accurate is so emotionally overpowering that it produces the desired anti-Trump message. For example separating illegal immigrants applying for asylum from their children is the equivalent of separating mothers from their children at Nazi death camps.
In this case, a Republican calling into question the racism of a Democrat must be shouted down with the image of rising McCarthyism tied to some science fiction concern about forced DNA testing.
So why can only Democrats play the race card?
So we can now Culturally appropriate other cultures for political gain now???
It is like the democrat rules change based on a whim.... kinda like the rules in a despot ran sham country.....
HUH...
It’s not about DNA, it’s not about ancestry. It’s about LYING for personal gain.
So. Making someone prove who they are is what exactly?
Give the Left credit for its creativity in the destruction of the language.
Well, Daily Beast guys, you all need to watch one of those 1950s noir movies in which, when the bad guy is disgraced will be humiliated publicly, he goes down the dark hallway with a friend, to a black room. The friend goes in, turns on the light. Together, they find a simple desk and chair and nothing else. The guy goes in, sits and says a simple like like. “I’ll see you after.” The friend closes the door, and the disgraced guy pulls open the top left hand draw—it’s always the top left-hand drawer. He reaches in a pulls out a revolver. We cut to the friend in the hallway. Within a few moments, we hear a shot and the sound of a thud from the room. We pull back and THE END is superimposed. That’s all that’s left for you guys.
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