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Excellent, Mr. Wilmore!
I don’t have white skin! I don’t, I tells ya!
Why is it that when a person who was born biologically male announces themselves as female, then people making fun of that person are pariahs…
…but if this person who was born biologically “white” (a far less measurable quality) identifies themselves as black, it’s open season on her?
Sorry, I just don’t get the outrage here. She identifies as black, she has worked for black rights, I doubt she “fooled” many people in her NAACP chapter, they just decide on the whole as a person, she was right for the job they gave her.
From what I’ve seen, she is a much more attractive black woman than a white woman.
You beat me to it.
Why is she free to chose to be a man when she is actually a woman but not free to chose to be black when she is actually white.
Furthermore, a person’s race doesn’t truly indicate a functional difference, whereas a person’s gender denotes a true functional difference.
Because she is a serial liar, that’s why. She’s lied about her parentage, her upbringing, everything. She claims a black adopted brother as her biological son. She claims an unrelated black man as her biological father. She claims to have been raised in a teepee and caught her food with bow and arrow for crying out loud. About 4 years ago her actual black adopted siblings were specifically asked not to out her. Just last week, when asked by a reporter about her claims, she panicked and bolted from the scene so quick she forgot her purse and car keys, and ran and hid inside a nearby boutique for hours. Not exactly the actions of an honest person experiencing life and comfortable in their skin. Please, tell me something, anything, that she’s been honest about!
13 years ago, when she still lived as a white woman, she sued her university workplace for discrimination, for favoring black people over her. She lost. This to me is the genesis of her whole charade. If you can’t beat 'em, join 'em, and all that.
She’s a fraud and a liar and a scammer. I can’t see one shed of anything genuine about her or her claims. To me, she’s no different than a welfare scammer. Like those well-off people who apply for welfare and get caught 10 years later after stealing half a million bucks. It looks and feels exactly the same from where I’m standing.
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But the background lies aren’t the reason people are upset. Because they didn’t come out until well after she was “outed”.
The initial outrage was that she was white and “pretended” to be black.
Did she panic when she was outed? Yes, the same as would a man secretly living as a woman would likely have if he/she were outed. The same as, not that long ago, a person who was “passing” as straight would be if they were exposed on TV in front of the entire nation as gay.
You want to make a villain of her for lying, fine. But then be fair and do the same for everyone who similarly hid their sex or sexual orientation.
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For me Rachel Dolezal’s problem is the lying. If she said, "I know I am white but I really identify as black"I would say “go for it.” They lying says she is a woman of little integrity.
Cagey lady…
Doing interviews on the news programs this week.
Won’t be long until she’s making rounds on LateNight Talkery plugging her book
"Unblack Like Me:
subtitle "Diary of a Mad Unblack Woman’.
For so many reasons. Perhaps the most obvious difference is that LGBT folks who sought / seek to “pass” as straight generally did / do so to avoid the historically overwhelming (and even currently still very substantial) amount of prejudice against LGBT people. If Dolezal wants to claim she felt she had to hide her “whiteness” to avoid rampant anti-white bigotry…well sorry, that’s just laughable.
But that was never her claim. Should I quote a definition of “straw man argument”?
You might want to read a definition of “straw man argument,” since I wasn’t making one. My actual argument, which you didn’t bother to respond to, is contained in the sentence before that one. The last sentence is just noting that IF she (or someone else for that matter) wants to try to claim an equivalency between her situation and the situation of LGBT folks who chose to “pass” as straight to avoid persecution, I would find that absurd. My argument stands, your false equivalency fails.