Okay, so I am in a bad mood, granted, but this is so far out of my ken as an ordinary citizen that I am not feeling it. I understand that women actors in Hollywood are up in arms over smaller paychecks than their male counterparts are granted and well they should be, but how does this impact us as a whole? So Jennifer…
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All the good work in the world doesn’t change the fact that she’s living a lie and has a fucked up past full of weirdness and possibly committing crimes and suing a university because she is white.
I definitely am not white. Nothing about being white describes who I am. So, you know, what’s the word for it? The closest thing that I can come to is if you’re black or white, I’m black. I’m more black than white. On a level of values, lived experience currently. In this moment, that’s the answer. That’s the accurate…
RIGHT??? “What is black? What are parents? How do we even know we’re awake? That life is not an illusion? To be? Or not to be? To eat the cookies and the pie? To sleep, to die, to cry? To type, too ripe?” Fucking incoherent lying sack of lies.
So they got revenge on her by outing her.
Like I said above, they didn’t start the international media circus. They certainly seem happy enough to participate in it, but the story broke because she faked a hate crime against herself, and a reporter contacted her parents while looking into that story. It became a media circus because of her batshit insane…
Oh yeah, totally. Race isn't biology, great. But it still exists, and you can still belong, or not belong, to a given race, so there's no reason she can't answer that question. If you didn't think race was real, or had concrete affects on people living in the US, why on earth would you join the NAACP?
And her doing this totally discredits the legitimate use of theory to understand identity. She’s endangering the progress made in getting people to recognize gender as fluid and sexuality as more than mutually exclusive checkboxes. She is fucking it up for lots of people.
Yeah, the mental illness arguments and transgender comparisons are really grating on my nerves at this point.
They didn’t. The media approached them, after the police started looking into a fake hate crime report she filed. If she’d been content with merely pretending to be black (and pretending that she lived in South Africa, and that a friend was her father, and that her brother was her son, and that she lived in a teepee…
No, don’t do that. Sometimes people act bizarrely, and sometimes people do things we don’t understand, and sometimes people do terrible, terrible things. That does not mean that they are mentally ill. It is possible that they carry some diagnosable disorder, but to say that she must be (to even go so far as to suggest…
Same way a parent has to eventually tell their daughter that they’re not actually a princess or that their son can’t wear a cape to school.
Dolezal was first asked if she had ever straight-up lied to someone about her race. She replied, “No, because never have I been asked, ‘are you human or are you not human?’ Race as a construct has a fluid understanding. So I would say no.”
Because she’s a lying sack of shit blackface weirdo?
Let’s not forget that gay people should be legally prevented from getting married because it is such a sacred institution.