I think the white persecution angle of your discussion here is hysterical, but I do agree that this is a potentially interesting conversation that does not get answered. In US culture, it might be hard for people to understand. Dark skinned south Indians are another example of people who are not black in the African…

I have a friend who looks completely white, but has a black father. Her blackness gets challenged much more than you would imagine.

Yeah, I think that’s part of it too. But I had a good friend in college who was half Native American and she looked no different from any white person you might have seen around the western Michigan town we went to school in. She brought up the way that she unintentionally passes once to a black official at the…

Nah, I have a set of cousins that look a lot like her, it has nothing to do with your being white and not being able to tell if someone fair-skinned is white or non-white. Black people come in pretty much every shade/set of colors. That’s exactly what she was counting on to make her story plausible for all the years…

Rihanna co-opts Burning Man fashion, wears it to Coachella, people frek out about how great and unique it is. comeon.

If I didn’t know her from the media I’d guess she was a Daft Punk[er] in civies. But then, I know what those two dudes look like.

that is appalling. completely unflattering and artless.

“Unlimited clothing budget”?

I’ve been rolling my eyes so hard this “festival season” that I’m afraid they’ll be permanently stuck that way.

She put stock into a shitload of plastic surgery to bypass education for a modelling career. And ignorance is no excuse when you can easily remedy your ignorance.

Her fan base won’t suffer either because they’re also idiots. Anyone that’s a ‘fan’ of these people - who do nothing and have zero talent and hawk garbage and lies - and give them money is an idiot.

She’s completely inarticulate though. She can’t handle this in any way. This is where you can see how badly they needed to go to high school, college, read books, anything. This is beyond her capacity. And celebrities do need to study, read, learn. People will ask them difficult questions. There is nothing she can say…

I mean, she could say “I am donating *insert large amount of money* to *insert actual Resistance group,*” I sure wouldn’t criticize her for that.

No disagreements there. Just saying that the whole thing about the Dunning-Kruger effect is that the reason why incompetent people overestimate their competence is precisely because knowing how to do something, and being able to gauge how good you are at something, require the exact same set of skills.

That would require Kendall to develop a sense of self-awareness. She probably sees herself as a victim.

Yea, in all fairness, she has an internet connection and literally nothing but free time on her hands. She isn’t a single mother working two jobs and trying to make ends meet, she is a “celebrity” who could easily access this kind of information. And not having a lot of education isn’t really an excuse- there are…

In total fairness, it was my (very-limited) understanding that Kendall has next to no formal education, and even if she has a high school diploma, I would not exactly put much stock in her having done the work to get it. In D&D terms, she pretty much put all her points into boosting Charisma and left Intelligence and…

I bet shes’s still under contract with the cola company and can’t say anything to badmouth them but a thinker could work around that and still show some concern or remorse.

The commercial was such a massive failure from a social justice standpoint that no matter what she did to try and “make up” for it, it will seem pathetically insufficient. She would have to donate a massive amount of money, or organize a massive protest herself, or something of that nature. I highly doubt she has the…

It’s because she’s incapable of having an opinion. When she’s owned by corporate sponsorships and skipped out on school for a modeling career, she’s only capable of having Quinn Morgendorfer-level, superficial thoughts: Which is my best side? Can you see my pores? and saving only the cute animals.