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Maybe She's Just An Atlanta Braves Or Florida State Fan
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Sometimes, the most culturally, racially, sexually, and otherwise inappropriate comments often come from people who profess to be "progressive" and "sensitive" and accuse others of being racist/sexist/etc. I've heard more jokes and negative comments about gays from people who consider themselves Bernie Sanders-liberal than from anyone else. The people who are quickest to rip others for intolerance tend to be intolerant themselves, they just don't recognize it. So when Rep. Loretta Sanchez (D-CA), fresh from declaring her candidacy for Senate, describes Native Americans by doing a stereotypical "woo woo" war cry thing RIGHT IN FRONT OF A GROUP OF NATIVE-AMERICANS, it shouldn't shock anyone. This was more blatant than stuff other politicians have been knocked out of races for, so it'll be interesting to see if she recovers, especially since Sanchez was doing it in a story contrasting THAT kind of "Indian" with actual Indians, and her opponent in the Senate race, Kamala Harris, is the daughter of an Indian mom. Not sure what the issue is with the guy who took the fateful video having raised money for Harris' campaign, even if he initially denied doing so, because it doesn't change the fact that Sanchez did the war cry thing. (KCRA-TV/Sacramento; Los Angeles Times)
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