Elizabeth Warren’s Attempt to Commemorate ‘Indigenous Peoples Day’ Didn’t Go So Well
Elizabeth Warren should have learned by now to take a holiday from social media this time of year. The Massachusetts senator — and the country’s most famous American of negligible-American-Indian-descent — has been…
Elizabeth Warren should have learned by now to take a holiday from social media this time of year.
The Massachusetts senator — and the country’s most famous American of negligible-American-Indian-descent — has been spent the past few years making a laughingstock of herself every October by taking yet another courageous stand on behalf of “Indigenous Peoples Day.”
And on Monday, it only got worse.
Warren brought it on herself — again — by publishing a social media post celebrating “Indigenous Peoples Day,” the contemporary, bastardized version of the venerable Columbus Day.
“On #IndigenousPeoplesDay, we celebrate the resilience, sovereignty, and rich cultures of Native communities,” she wrote. “But the federal government has long failed to fulfill its obligations to tribal nations. We must do more to honor and uphold our promises to Native peoples.”
And blah and blah and blah.
Social media users familiar with Warren’s background weren’t buying it:
“She really has no shame, does she?” one wrote.
No, she clearly doesn’t.
Warren, as most Americans might recall, is the law-professor-turned-hectoring-politican who parlayed high cheekbones and what she claimed was family lore into a career-benefiting masquerade