This is a case of ACTUAL cultural appropriation.

That small of an amount seems like it would be a statistical error not proof of anything.

Or the amount of DNA you would expect to see in a person from a group of known nomads over the last 1,000 years.

Embarrassing she's actually trying to spike the football on this one. Having all this done only shows she recognizes it's a problem for her.

Wasn't it the Democratic party that came up with the one drop rule???? And now they want to apply it again to PROVE ancestry........

riflebear said:

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Ouch

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Cherokee Nation will return....

Cher just released an update:

My great-great-great-great-great-great-
Great-great-great grandfather married a 1/2 Cherokee
Democratic people are now ashamed of me
The Indians said I was white by law
The Trump Man always called me "Fauxcahontus"
1/1000th breed, that's all I ever heard
1/1000th breed, how I learned to hate the word
1/1000th breed, she's no good they warned
Honest people were against me since the day I was a Harvard minority
We never settled, was I white or red or brown
When you're not welcome you do all you can to take Trump down
The Trumpster has always laughed at me
"Give her a feather, she's 1/1000th Cherokee"
1/1000th breed, that's all I ever heard
1/1000th breed, how I learned to hate the word
1/1000th breed, she's no good they warned
Honest people were against me since the day I was a Harvard minority
I was accepted and I felt no shame
Six years in the Senate, tell me who's to blame
My life since then has been from lie to lie
But I can't run away from what I am
1/1000th breed, that's all I ever heard
1/1000th breed, how I learned to hate the word
1/1000th breed, she's no good they warned
Honest people were against me since the day I was a Harvard minority

Jack Bauer said:

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This would be like Trump's tax returns showing he paid $500 in taxes as "strong evidence" he is a taxpayer.

I think this is the sign Warren is planning her run for 2020 and she wants to get this out early.

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She's said she's exploring.

Appeal to ridicule is a type of appeal to emotion, a logical fallacy which seeks to instill a particular emotion in the readers rathole than address the intended issue. The appeal to ridicule, which is also called reductio ad ridiculum, or more strangely the Horse laugh. That name is ridiculous, as this fallacy has nothing in common with horses (who spend most of their time grazing in the pastures and don't give two dumps about debating,) and any laugh one may get is a sort of fabricated Schadenfreude that has been engineered solely to make your target look like an idiot. The biggest difference from humor/satire is that humor is funny, and while appealing to ridicule is funny for those who oppose the targeted opinion/group, it makes those guilty look like dickholes. The formula goes like this:
* I don't agree with X.
* Therefore, X is stupid and deserves my mockery and ridicule
* Oh I know! I think I'll make an entire website that ridicules X and calls adherents of X a bunch of nasty names for everyone who agrees with me to laugh at to make themselves feel powerful! That's definitely the most rationalthing to do.
This can be a difficult fallacy to avoid, as some people are clearly very uninformed, and pointing out their stupidity is a very tempting thing.


* 1 Who uses this?
Everyone. Because face it, it's fun to laugh at people you don't like. I'll show them I'm a smarter person than them with my blunt honesty and delightfully cruel wit! Anyone with half a brain will laugh, it'll be a very swell time!

https://www.cnn.com/2018/10/15/opinions/elizabeth-warren-native-heritage-where-has-she-been-moya-smith/index.html

"When we needed her, she didn't lace up. She didn't show up. It's not enough to claim to be Native. You must also be there for your people, be a part of the community, and not only when it's convenient or when you want something -- like the presidency"

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/cherokee-nation-elizabeth-warren-dna-test-inappropriate_us_5bc50e4de4b0d38b587060a1

Chuck Hoskin Jr., secretary of state of the Cherokee Nation, said Warren was "undermining tribal interests with her continued claims of tribal heritage."

"A DNA test is useless to determine tribal citizenship," Hoskin said. "Current DNA tests do not even distinguish whether a person's ancestors were indigenous to North or South America. Sovereign tribal nations set their own legal requirements for citizenship, and while DNA tests can be used to determine lineage, such as paternity to an individual, it is not evidence for tribal affiliation. Using a DNA test to lay claim to any connection to the Cherokee Nation or any tribal nation, even vaguely, is inappropriate and wrong."

He added, "It makes a mockery out of DNA tests and its legitimate uses while also dishonoring legitimate tribal governments and their citizens, whose ancestors are well documented and whose heritage is proven."

Waco1947 said:

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Appeal to ridicule is a type of appeal to emotion, a logical fallacy which seeks to instill a particular emotion in the readers rathole than address the intended issue. The appeal to ridicule, which is also called reductio ad ridiculum, or more strangely the Horse laugh. That name is ridiculous, as this fallacy has nothing in common with horses (who spend most of their time grazing in the pastures and don't give two dumps about debating,) and any laugh one may get is a sort of fabricated Schadenfreude that has been engineered solely to make your target look like an idiot. The biggest difference from humor/satire is that humor is funny, and while appealing to ridicule is funny for those who oppose the targeted opinion/group, it makes those guilty look like dickholes. The formula goes like this:
* I don't agree with X.
* Therefore, X is stupid and deserves my mockery and ridicule
* Oh I know! I think I'll make an entire website that ridicules X and calls adherents of X a bunch of nasty names for everyone who agrees with me to laugh at to make themselves feel powerful! That's definitely the most rationalthing to do.
This can be a difficult fallacy to avoid, as some people are clearly very uninformed, and pointing out their stupidity is a very tempting thing.


* 1 Who uses this?
Everyone. Because face it, it's fun to laugh at people you don't like. I'll show them I'm a smarter person than them with my blunt honesty and delightfully cruel wit! Anyone with half a brain will laugh, it'll be a very swell time!

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Objection, non-responsive. If you are going to blanket threads with logic lessons, at least try to apply them correctly.