Quick! How many stereotypes about Native Americans can you think of off the top of your head? Not very many? Well, that is yet another reason that Harvard is the best at many things.
When the Crimson endorsed Elizabeth Warren for Senate last week, the paper's readers raced to add their own hilarious observations about Native American culture to the comment thread. Warren has been accused of falsely claiming minority status because her mom apparently told her that she was part Cherokee. And as Harvard's astute Internet commenters know, elections are not about issues --- they are about whether or not someone is 1/32nd Native American.
There's not a single comment on the editorial that explicitly supports Warren. But between it and lots of other articles that the Crimson has published about Warren, Harvard's commenters have never wanted for an excuse to write something funny about those hilarious Indians.
A sampling of comments from some of those articles:
So try to base you views on reality not the twisted babble of a white Indian and a wannabe Indian that are just making smoke signals to cloud the truth.
I wonder how much of Warren's out-of-state donations are coming from casinos in Oklahoma?
LOL. Indians do smoke signals and they also love casinos! But seriously, does anything ever not come down to race with Republicans? Just kidding, of course --- they sometimes also like to talk about "erotic gay wrestlers," whatever that means (is being gay and/or a wrestler inherently erotic, or did this one do something special?).
