Why do so many purposely misinterpret Senator Warren's position?

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66. She did NOT claim minority status when she applied to universities or when she applied to jobs.

It was only after her last appointment, when she already had her job at Harvard, when she got a form asking her to check off her racial categories -- for some statistics Harvard was collecting.

And like a faculty friend I know, from the same era, she checked off both boxes, because she didn't want to deny the small part of Native American blood that she had been told ran in her family.

Like my friend, she didn't make an issue of it. She didn't get any benefits from it. She didn't think much of it, except she was being precise, as best as she could.

Decades later, Scott Brown had an investigator dig into her past, and found this "revelation" in an old form that she had checked off. And they've been calling her a liar ever since, while THEY have been the ones telling the lies, because her answer on that form gave her no benefit whatsoever. She only filled it out after she had her final faculty position, at Harvard.