Is calling Elizabeth Warren 'Pocahontas' an insult?

A number of Democrats and members of the media (but I repeat myself) have suggested it is an insult to refer to Sen. Elizabeth Warren as "Pocahontas."

The controversy arose when President Trump, speaking to Navajo veterans Monday, made this comment – an obvious allusion to Warren: "I just want to thank you because you are very, very special people. You were here long before any of us were here. Although, we have a representative in Congress who they say was here a long time ago ... longer than you – they call her Pocahontas!"

Some, including Warren, called it a "racial slur."

The question is how so?

If what Trump said was an insult, to whom?

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As someone with far more native American ancestry than Warren, I would have to say that posing as a native American impostor for advantage in academia and in one's career, as she did, is the most insulting, most offensive and most exploitive form of cultural and ethnic appropriation I've seen in public life.

Clearly, without articulating his view, I would suggest President Trump saw it the same way I did.

I've noticed Rush Limbaugh, too, employs the Pocahontas sobriquet for Warren. I've used it myself. It's a joke, of course. It is indeed intentionally demeaning, offensive and insulting – but to Warren, not to Pocahontas or to native Americans generally.

Pocahontas is an American heroine. Elizabeth Warren is an American punchline.

Remember, Warren's not really a native American. She's a shameless impostor, a fraudster, a joke – someone who claimed to be a native American to elevate her otherwise boring and undistinguished background and personality and to exploit for her own personal advantage a heritage that did not belong to her. In a way, she could be accurately described as a kind of thief – one who steals the identity of others.

Not only is it insulting to native Americans that Warren pretended to be one. It is even more insulting that she would continue to define calling her out on that a "racial slur."

What was the context of Trump's talk to the Navajo veterans? He was honoring a group of heroes – the famous "code talkers" of World War II. He couldn't have been more effusive in his praise of these men. And, keep in mind, he was celebrating them as native Americans for their self-sacrifice, courage and unique skills.

Only Democrats and the media (but, again I repeat myself) could turn Trump's veneration of these aging warriors into a faux insult.

What Democrats and the media do is the worst form of cultural and racial appropriation. They seek to define for native Americans, for African-Americans and for Hispanic-Americans how they think, how they view the world, what they believe, what their experience is and what is insulting to them. They demean the individuality of every member of those groups by doing so. It's the worst form of stereotyping and racism imaginable.

To add insult to injury, they do all this for their own personal and political empowerment.

Nevertheless, Democrats and their media shills position themselves as the true advocates and benefactors of racial minorities. And they get away with not only cultural appropriation, but appropriation of minorities' historical victimization and exploitation.

Why do we let them get away with writing such a phony political and social narrative? And why do so many members of those racial minorities allow themselves to be exploited in such a way?

Bottom line: How in the world do Elizabeth Warren and her supporters continue to define what is insulting, insensitive and demeaning to native Americans when she should rightly be seen as someone who has defrauded their proud heritage?

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