I am sure someone is going to discover plagiarism. Wouldn’t that get her fired? 

I think you misread my post. I most definitely wasn’t giving her the benefit of the doubt. I think she came out with her lie because, as a colleague/friend of hers pointed out on twitter, she was about to be exposed. And instead of announcing her resignation on her blog post, she instead posted some word salad about…

Lord have mercy this is the term I’ve been looking for to describe why organizing on the left is always such a crapshoot. The egos and narcissism used by people just drags everything down and alienates people.

There’s such a thing as a “communal/activist narcissist,” which is largely the vibe I get from people like Jessica Krug.

I guess we’re all blind when it comes to ourselves, but.. this is a woman who has undoubtedly called for other people to resign, to make reparations, to step back. In the most recent example I could find, she criticized white people for taking up space in a city council meeting and told them to cede their time to…

This would be a non-issue if they had been born to a Mexican dad and a Korean mom thus having a Latino last name, even though their ethnicity would have remained exactly the same. In that case, would you expect them to change their name to their Korean mother’s, or specify on theri college applications that they’re…

What are the rewards? So much liberal cred. So much.

That’s fine, but they did this because a Hispanic applicant is going to get a bump while an Asian will get dinged. They own this fully, and I don’t blame them at all for gaming the system because they don’t set the rules.

That’s legit, she is both of their child, and has both of their genetic make-up. I’m super-white, but my kid’s last name is hispanic, because they are half-hispanic. I’m not trying to get over, but if they get benefits because of their (legit) heritage I’m not going to deny them. 

I can only assume someone who wakes up and perpetuates this fiction every single day for more than a decade has something fundamentally wrong with her.  But it doesn’t mean I’ll give her a pass.  Go get your therapy, then GTFO.

Yeah these are classic examples of having your cake and eating it too - in their professional lives there was a benefit to being known as POC because of their fields, but they could walk around the street without being hassled by police because they obviously don’t look like POC.

This latest story feels so much wilder and weirder than most because of her Medium post. It was EXTREMELY troubling to read. I’m torn between my natural anger at her exploitation of a background that wasn’t hers and that she used it to elevate herself, her work, and more than likely benefited through programs and…

See, the issue I have with this article is that if, say, People Magazine had run the same thing, it hits me as on-brand for Jezebel to write a post pointing out the very real stereotypes surrounding black people and swimming, and to point out the infantalization of an accomplished woman. I don’t think the article is…

“What unites these stories of “ethnic fraud” is their conservative belief that being non-white rewards a person with material benefits, at least if you’re a writer or scholar who believes there is profit to be made off of identity politics. But that belief is largely false—the few opportunities that exist for…

Not the super muscular one, the new one, please keep up.

When you’re treading close to a racial stereotype (like black people not being good swimmers) in a joke, even if the racial stereotype isn’t the intended punchline, you should walk away from the joke and find a better one. When you’re infantilizing a grown woman for a joke, even if the infantilizing isn’t the…

I’m physically and emotionally and financially drained from my healthcare job that I’m working in a pandemic. This person got paid to write 13 sentences about this. I just-

Right? I’m pretty sure people of average height can easily drown in 8-10 feet of water! Since most aren't world class athletes they're probably more likely!

What, in all seriousness, is the point of this “article”? I actually hate myself now for clicking on it. I guess you got your fractions of a penny from ads from me, so I guess you’re welcome.

It is exactly the kind of criticism Jezebel would lob at someone else.