The Fifth Estate’s exposé of Buffy Sainte-Marie’s real identity as an Italian- and English-American from suburban Massachusetts rather than an indigenous person abducted from a Saskatchewan reservation rates awards in the same way Buffy Sainte-Marie did not.
That is to say, people who lie about their background to curry favor with panels, committees, and judges, who in turn lie about honoring talent when they really award politics or race or gender identity, do not deserve their accolades, and the people who expose frauds rate praise but never receive it.
