(September 27, 2012 at 11:15 pm)A Theist Wrote: The billboard is challenging Elizabeth Warren's honesty. In her campaign Warren claimed to be of Native American heritage, (to get hired on as a Harvard Law school professor). It was found that her claims lacked credibility. In otherwords, she lied about her Native American minority status to further her career..... thus her nickname, 'Fauxcahontas'
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/arch...at/257415/
on the article you gave in that link i read that she said: "these were family stories" wich were told her by her parents. if that version of her account is true and she realy thought of herself as part native and therefor gained the benefits she gained at harvard law school - there is no guilt on her - because it would not have qualified as a intentional fraud.
in that article Lenzy Krehbiel-Burton a spokesmen of the cherokee nation of oklahoma is quoted:
"There's a running joke in Indian country: If you meet somebody who you wouldn't necessarily think they're Native, but they say they're Native, chances are they'll tell you they're Cherokee"
so it seems to be a rather common thing that people claim to be cherokee not knowing that they are actualy repeating a family myth.
i met a lot of germans who claimed to be eastprussians, aswell as i know a lot of people who claim to own a part of rubble from the former berlin wall although it is well known that if you collect all suposed parts from the berlin wall in private ownership the wall would have reached from gibralta to moscow. past on family miyths are a very common thing.
but yes! there is a possibility that she intenionaly commited fraud, although i find that to be rather unlikely since her entire family seems to have believed that myth.
i would like to get to what is my criticism of that depiction.
i know a lot of carricatures in wich liars are made fun of (last year our minister of defence was found to have plagurised his doctoral research study, and had to resign)
a pinocio nose is probably the most common carricature of a liar, and i believe there are certainly various different ways to draw such a carricature.
but to depict her as a native american. well it is obvious that this can allude towards anti-native american sentiment.
and the creator of that depiction will have to face the accusations that that might have been his intention.
