'Real Indian' challenging Elizabeth Warren must remove signs calling her a fake Indian, city says R
Source: Miami Herald
'Real Indian' challenging Elizabeth Warren must remove signs calling her a fake Indian, city says
April 24, 2018 12:25 PM
"Only a REAL INDIAN Can Defeat the Fake Indian."
The words, emblazoned on two signs that hang off U.S. Senate candidate Shiva Ayyadurai's campaign bus, appear next to two images: one of a stoic Ayyadurai looking into the camera, and another of a closeup of Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren wearing a Native American headdress.
Ayyadurai, a 54-year-old scientist born in Bombay, India, told the Washington Times the city of Camridge, Mass., had ordered him to remove the signs because they were placed "without approvals and permits." He believes this was instead a case of the city trying to clamp down on his right to free speech.
This is a political vendetta by city officials who are supporters of Elizabeth Warren, Ayyadurai told the paper. "We will not remove the slogan from our bus, Ayyadurai told the paper. We will defend the First Amendment, and we will fight this egregious attack on the First Amendment, at any cost.
He has since filed a lawsuit demanding the court prevent the city of Cambridge from imposing a fine on his campaign, saying that the same signs were in place for months and that he was only served a notice when the wording was changed. The suit also makes a case that the signs cannot be in violation because they are on a moving vehicle, not a building.
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Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/national/article209690204.html#storylink=cpy
Read more: http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/national/article209690204.html
He is running as an Independent.
Shiva Ayyadurai, who is running for U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren's seat, is suing the city of Cambridge, Mass., for ordering him to remove signs that call Warren a "fake Indian." Warren has been criticized for saying she has Cherokee ancestry. Shiva Ayyadurai/Twitter Screenshot
Freethinker65
(10,070 posts)DeminPennswoods
(15,290 posts)There are Indians from the sub-continent of India and Indians who were the original inhabitants of America and are now called Native Americans.
Stargazer99
(2,600 posts)the conservatives are trying hard to make sure the lower classes do not become well educated because they would be more difficult to screw
DeminPennswoods
(15,290 posts)picture and think "that's Apu!".
poboy2
(2,078 posts)Smells of O'Keffe/Milo/Trump juvenile assholery
RhodeIslandOne
(5,042 posts)Pfffttt
Crutchez_CuiBono
(7,725 posts)the dumbed down.."lock her up' chanters, love a slogan or gimmick. Less thinking..
Me.
(35,454 posts)Comrade Trump would take
elleng
(131,202 posts)(but problem due to her prominence; standards differ.) I wonder how many voters up there will go for it.
paulkienitz
(1,296 posts)which does not of course make his point valid
Stargazer99
(2,600 posts)dhill926
(16,373 posts)continuing to raise the level of political dialogue in the age of the orange menace...
a kennedy
(29,723 posts)pangaia
(24,324 posts)C_U_L8R
(45,025 posts)but Massachusetts has no tolerance for that kind of nasty ratfuckery.
left-of-center2012
(34,195 posts)From the linked article:
"Ayyadurai is no stranger to controversy.
The scientist is perhaps most well known for claiming to have invented email as a teenager ..."
Turbineguy
(37,375 posts)Warren can run on issues and ideas.
TheSmarterDog
(794 posts)Good luck with that, Shiva.
Croney
(4,671 posts)that this guy is a credible threat to our beloved Ms. Warren, whose ancestry means absolutely nothing to me.
ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)is a Real Asshole.
djacq
(1,634 posts)pnwmom
(109,009 posts)2naSalit
(86,843 posts)BarbaRosa
(2,685 posts)the harder they embrace it.
come on gop grow up
riversedge
(70,350 posts)scipan
(2,361 posts)this guy seems like pretty much of a charlatan. He claims to have invented "EMAIL" because he copyrighted a program called "EMAIL" in 1978, long after email was actually in use.
From nethistory:
Early email was just a small advance on what we know these days as a file directory - it just put a message in another user's directory in a spot where they could see it when they logged in. Simple as that. Just like leaving a note on someone's desk.
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Before internetworking began, therefore, email could only be used to send messages to various users of the same computer. Once computers began to talk to each other over networks, however, the problem became a little more complex - We needed to be able to put a message in an envelope and address it. To do this, we needed a means to indicate to whom letters should go that the electronic posties understood - just like the postal system, we needed a way to indicate an address.
This is why Ray Tomlinson is credited with inventing email in 1972. Like many of the Internet inventors, Tomlinson worked for Bolt Beranek and Newman as an ARPANET contractor. He picked the @ symbol from the computer keyboard to denote sending messages from one computer to another. So then, for anyone using Internet standards, it was simply a matter of nominating name-of-the-user@name-of-the-computer. Internet pioneer Jon Postel, who we will hear more of later, was one of the first users of the new system, and is credited with describing it as a "nice hack". It certainly was, and it has lasted to this day.
http://www.nethistory.info/History%20of%20the%20Internet/email.html
turbinetree
(24,726 posts)maybe you should read about the Cherokee Nation, or better yet maybe you should grow-up, and while your growing up read this book, it pretty much tells you what it means for my Cherokee heritage that my mother taught me on how to be a man, and our circle of life, and not using words as some form of cliche....................do you understand the word cliche
http://www.sacred-texts.com/nam/cher/motc/index.htm
And if you can get past the Myths here is shorter version for your IQ and your mentality
http://www.native-languages.org/cherokee.htm
arithia
(455 posts)Last edited Tue Apr 24, 2018, 08:06 PM - Edit history (1)
I'm as white looking as she is and I have Lenape ancestry. Genetics and inherited physical traits are interesting in that way. If it's a few generations back.....
By calling her a "fake Indian", he is using a term many Native Americans find outdated and offensive. Picturing her with a war-bonnet to question her ancestry is flat out window-licking levels of ignorance. ****The Cherokee didn't f*cking wear them!!!!!!!!!!!****
http://www.cherokee.org/About-The-Nation/Culture/General/Manner-of-Cherokee-Dress
So, in his not-so-subtle accusation of cultural appropriation, he's conflating different tribes/their customs and displaying his own racist stereotypes. Not surprising given that he's given to claims that are bullshit.
What a jerk.
robbob
(3,538 posts)I dont like the cheap shots either, but this guy is obviously picking up on the RW talking point that Elizabeth Warren made up a story about her Native American ancestry. I dont like it either, but I dont think we need to pretend he is making some broader racist shot aimed at First Nations.
I mean, really? No one here has heard the criticisms that Warren lied (or exaggerated) about her ancestry?
So perhaps you could provide some actual evidence that Senator warren actually did lie about her ancestry? And which Native Americans have you spoken to about this? And what did they actually say, if you actually spoke to one or more?
This is racial bias baiting with absolute and unabashed ignorance. And I suspect that he is knowingly baiting an argument against Native Americans which will soon find its way out of the mouths of the polluted gene pool in DC.
robbob
(3,538 posts)Last edited Tue Apr 24, 2018, 11:09 PM - Edit history (1)
Im not casting doubt on Warrens claims to Native ancestry; Im just pointing out that this is a RW smear job they have used against EW. His ad slamming her as a fake Indian is playing on this RW smear. I dont like him, I hate the GOP, and I hate this juvenile mud slinging politics of personal destruction. I just dont believe his ad is a broader attack on Native Americans; its clearly an attack on Warren based on the RW smear that she lied/exaggerated her claims to Native American heritage.
pnwmom
(109,009 posts)His "real" Indian-ness isn't better than her real American-ness. All we care about is what kind of AMERICANS they are, and he seems to be choosing to identify with his Indian background more than his US citizenship. No, thanks.
liberal from boston
(856 posts)Massachusetts is very proud of Senator Warren. Meghan McCain on The View went on a rant stating that a worthy person was denied because of Senator Warren's lies. After a commercial break Whoopee read a statement from Harvard University Professor that Harvard recruited Elizabeth Warren & her resume did not include her Indian ancestry. Suggest you watch video of Scott Brown begging Mr. Koch for money.
robbob
(3,538 posts)I think she best represents what is good about the Democratic Party. My post was just an attempt to deconstruct the original attack on her (fake Indian ) by pointing out how it is another RW smear that has been around for a while (as evidenced by what you saw on The View), and not necessarily IMHO a broader attack on all Native American First Nation people as was being suggested by so many in this thread.
Republicons smear, lie, cheat and distort. Lets not be like them.
flotsam
(3,268 posts)...with a multi-armed drawing of Shiva the destroyer of worlds and some clever phrasing about Warren being a builder of progressive coalitions???
And I'd check this guys funding-this is pure gop ratfucking.
dem4decades
(11,307 posts)arithia
(455 posts)in my initial google search.. what an asshole! Dude's a domestic abuser. (Multiple websites back up the tweet, including conservative media.)
Link to tweet
pangaia
(24,324 posts)pazzyanne
(6,559 posts)He was born in Mumbai, India. Looks like we are comparing apples and oranges.
GWC58
(2,678 posts)Indian you, sir, are a 100% UDA Grade A Asshole. Top of the list at the bottom of the barrel. 😈
JI7
(89,279 posts)JI7
(89,279 posts)he was offered a job in India but it was withdrawn .
the guy has a questionable history in the work place.
he has a record of domestic abuse.
and while he is running as an independent he is a republican.
area51
(11,929 posts)Raine
(30,541 posts)she never claimed to be an indian, she's a Native American! Stupid idiot!
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