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EDIT: It appears that Senator Warren did not receive scholarships to college, or use her claims of NA heritage to gain advantage in the school admissions process. I apologize for my assumption that her claims extended back that far, when they started afterwards. My mistake.
She did claim it as a law professor at Harvard, respectively, and was noted as a "Woman of color" and given awards under the presumption made from her claims of cherokee association/ethnicity, which appear to not be true.
What is the threshold for making these claims and taking advantage of them? I would think that less than 1/10th of 1% does not subject a person to the assumed hardships that allow for the extra benefits a minority (in a particular area) receives, based on their ethnic/minority status. Is that incorrect? Are the "affirmative action" type policies not to assist in alleged, assumed hardships? If a person claims to be something they are not to get into a school, or to recieve preferential treatment at work, is that not false pretenses or fraud?
I will say that the lie would likely have to be intentional. I think that creates a gray area. I forgot about minor violations I had had as a teenager, which were about 20 years old, that I later reported to my law school. This omission did not give me any additional status, or financial benefit. The letter I received stated I would have been admitted anyway. Warren did not do this in the admission process, but did so at a job in academia, which may have carried some similar benefit.
Was Harvard looking too hard for a token minority? Should they acknowledge their mistake, and retroactively change the awards given to Warren as a "woman of color?"
She did claim it as a law professor at Harvard, respectively, and was noted as a "Woman of color" and given awards under the presumption made from her claims of cherokee association/ethnicity, which appear to not be true.
What is the threshold for making these claims and taking advantage of them? I would think that less than 1/10th of 1% does not subject a person to the assumed hardships that allow for the extra benefits a minority (in a particular area) receives, based on their ethnic/minority status. Is that incorrect? Are the "affirmative action" type policies not to assist in alleged, assumed hardships? If a person claims to be something they are not to get into a school, or to recieve preferential treatment at work, is that not false pretenses or fraud?
I will say that the lie would likely have to be intentional. I think that creates a gray area. I forgot about minor violations I had had as a teenager, which were about 20 years old, that I later reported to my law school. This omission did not give me any additional status, or financial benefit. The letter I received stated I would have been admitted anyway. Warren did not do this in the admission process, but did so at a job in academia, which may have carried some similar benefit.
Was Harvard looking too hard for a token minority? Should they acknowledge their mistake, and retroactively change the awards given to Warren as a "woman of color?"
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