Okay, I see your point. She *is* dishonest, and she has quite a checkered history of dishonesty - she got in trouble for welfare fraud way back. She's not someone I would want to be friends with, because of the pre-existing dishonesty, not because she was born white. If I knew someone like her (without the dishonesty) I think I would try…
Okay, I see your point. She *is* dishonest, and she has quite a checkered history of dishonesty - she got in trouble for welfare fraud way back. She's not someone I would want to be friends with, because of the pre-existing dishonesty, not because she was born white. If I knew someone like her (without the dishonesty) I think I would try to treat her as black but with the understanding that under the fake skin and whatever else she did to 'black herself up', it's still in my awareness that she's a white woman and I might sometimes talk to her that way, expecting her to understand. Which is how I would be with a transwoman I was friends with, there's still this tacit understanding that she is NOT the same as myself and I won't pretend otherwise if the circumstances warrant.
Jenny-now-Ian-Descenzio on Medium is like Buck Angel (one of his role models). He doesn't pretend he's not biologically a woman which is why I can so easily accept him (even though I had a private feeling of, 'Et tu, Brute?' when he first announced this. Jenny was often fairly aggressive and assertive before the switch so I can sort of see it, but I also wonder whether he is a 'bridge brain', someone who embodies a less sex-based way of thinking than others. I see this with a lot of people - some of it seems to be environment, culture, the way they were raised, but I think there may be a bit different brain wiring as well. (Speculation on my part).
Interestingly, when I pulled out the #2 article that Medium took down for 'hate speech' (despite being chosen for distribution for about ten days) and repurposed it for Vocal and my blog, I found a quote from a black social commentator and scholar, Dr. Boyce Watkins, back in 2015 when Dolezal was first 'outed'. He said, “She’s deeply invested in the black community. That’s really what bothers me about it; I looked at her track record, and she’s really into this. She’s teaching about black culture, she understands the subtleties of the black experience, she’s raising black children, she married a black man, she’s going to work for the NAACP. She does more for the black community than 99 percent of the black people that I know. And I know a lot of hard-working black people. So I can’t fault her for this, I just can’t.”
YMMV, but she's not just farting around. She's as serious as an auto accident about what she's done, which I can't say about a lot of other 'transracialists' or a lot of gender-switchers today, most of whom, as Dave Chappelle suggested, are doing more 'gender blackface' than being genuine and committed opposite sex members.
Okay, I see your point. She *is* dishonest, and she has quite a checkered history of dishonesty - she got in trouble for welfare fraud way back. She's not someone I would want to be friends with, because of the pre-existing dishonesty, not because she was born white. If I knew someone like her (without the dishonesty) I think I would try to treat her as black but with the understanding that under the fake skin and whatever else she did to 'black herself up', it's still in my awareness that she's a white woman and I might sometimes talk to her that way, expecting her to understand. Which is how I would be with a transwoman I was friends with, there's still this tacit understanding that she is NOT the same as myself and I won't pretend otherwise if the circumstances warrant.
Jenny-now-Ian-Descenzio on Medium is like Buck Angel (one of his role models). He doesn't pretend he's not biologically a woman which is why I can so easily accept him (even though I had a private feeling of, 'Et tu, Brute?' when he first announced this. Jenny was often fairly aggressive and assertive before the switch so I can sort of see it, but I also wonder whether he is a 'bridge brain', someone who embodies a less sex-based way of thinking than others. I see this with a lot of people - some of it seems to be environment, culture, the way they were raised, but I think there may be a bit different brain wiring as well. (Speculation on my part).
Interestingly, when I pulled out the #2 article that Medium took down for 'hate speech' (despite being chosen for distribution for about ten days) and repurposed it for Vocal and my blog, I found a quote from a black social commentator and scholar, Dr. Boyce Watkins, back in 2015 when Dolezal was first 'outed'. He said, “She’s deeply invested in the black community. That’s really what bothers me about it; I looked at her track record, and she’s really into this. She’s teaching about black culture, she understands the subtleties of the black experience, she’s raising black children, she married a black man, she’s going to work for the NAACP. She does more for the black community than 99 percent of the black people that I know. And I know a lot of hard-working black people. So I can’t fault her for this, I just can’t.”
YMMV, but she's not just farting around. She's as serious as an auto accident about what she's done, which I can't say about a lot of other 'transracialists' or a lot of gender-switchers today, most of whom, as Dave Chappelle suggested, are doing more 'gender blackface' than being genuine and committed opposite sex members.