More of the Shame

Dear Dr. Bones,

¡Wirklich wir leben in Fehrnströmerzeiten!

Though one Blue Blazer was irate that so much bandwidth ("40 posts as of 3:20 on what many says is a nonissue") was being wasted on the Great Law Squaw Squall, there was another who started up a whole new thread about it, as follows:

The return of the revenge of the son of the birther movement, Massachusetts style… petr | Tue, May 1, 2012 3:01 PM EST I’m just going to go ahead here and extend the metaphor into actual rumor… just so we can get that much sooner to brass tacks: Elizabeth Warren was born on a Cherokee reservation the daughter of a full blood Cherokee warrior who’s also a Socialist (His Cherokee name translates to “Dances with Marx.”) Therefore she’s neither a citizen nor a true democrat. There. It’s been said. All seriousness aside: does it seem familiar to anyone that issues of provenance are at the heart of the attack here? Barack Obama, obviously not white, is questioned on issues of gen[a]logy right up until last year.  Now Elizabeth Warren is also under scrutiny for her ancestry… ancestry that can, similarly, prove that she may not be sufficiently [A]ryan: that she’s not the completely, white bread, Oklahoma girl she’s presenting herself as, and has always presented herself as… Now the Zen Masters amongst us might harumph and gallump about how this has nothing whatsoever to do with racism but merely with a laughably unfair attempt to gain benefit from a long distant relationship.   Tell that to the Mayflawer Society, or the DAR… Honestly, does anyone think that she would face the same scrutiny, for example, if she gained some advantage, say a scholarship or recognition or networking help, because some ancestor once journeyed on the Mayflower, or fought in the Revolutionary War…? A lineage of equal or greater distance than that which she may, or may not, have claimed here. Don’t fool yourselves, the ‘win’ for team SB here is to put forth the notion that she’s not completely white.

Ad quem responduisset Patricius, were Paddy and Eye not unwillin’ to give too much cheek to Their Worships inside their own stately e-den,

Why the unjoo-bito, "gentlemen who dwell above the clouds," should be so very determined (( fold here )) to refuse to see the obvious here is beyond Paddy McTammany’s hair-trigger imagination. The good perfesser is not bein’ accused of some offense in conjunction with which ‘sexism’ or ‘r*cism’ can be plausibly dragged in, but of what an Esq. would, I presume, classify as fraud or larcency.   Possibly as receiving stolen goods.   Some form of action under false pretenses. The reliably dubious Herald of Louisedayhicksville gets this one whight: Suzan Shown Harjo, a former executive director of the National Congress of American Indians, expressed outrage yesterday after learning that Warren had identified herself as a Native American on law school records without documentation. “If you believe you are these things then that’s fine and dandy, but that doesn’t give you the right to claim yourself as Native American,” said Harjo, who said *Warren might have taken a job* another Native American could have received. Prosecutor Fehrnstrom takes for granted, you see, that the pretenses were FALSE, that is, that Her Beatitude is quite as ‘Aryan’ as anybody needs to be. If She were not, to indict Her for jobsnatchin’, so to call it, would make no sense. As usual, leaping immediately to an _argumentum ad Hitlerum_ with the exuberance about ‘Aryan’ is likely to backfire. Or would, were there any chance that the class of goodvolks whom Kindermeister von Fehrnstrom is targetin’ ever assist at the Blue Mass.

(( Our friend Internet Critic has asked me to add that though "Mayflawer Society" is not at all bad, yet it would have been better still, had ‘genealogy’ been spelled Mr. Webster’s way. Then one could be completely sure it was not just another tpyo. ))

Happy days.
--JHM