Another Rachel Dolezal (are you $%&# happy now???) story

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03 September 2020, 01:17 PM

jon-nyc

Another Rachel Dolezal (are you $%&# happy now???) story

This lady is a prof at GWU.

quote:
Jessica A. Krug is a historian of politics, ideas, and cultural practices in Africa and the African Diaspora, with a particular interest in West Central Africa and maroon societies in the early modern period and Black transnational cultural studies.

She’s been identifying as black from the Bronx with Caribbean roots for decades, but is really a Jewish girl from the Midwest.

https://medium.com/@jessakrug/...my-lies-9a9621401f85

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03 September 2020, 01:31 PM

ShiroKuro

Ok, not the most important detail here, but

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I am not a culture vulture. I am a culture leech.

Is there something I'm missing here? She sets this comment out on it's own line, infused with profundity.... But it's just sort of, meh? I'm wondering, so is being a leech that much worse than a vulture? Aren't they both equally bad in their own ways??

I confess I sort of stopped reading after that and mostly (barely) skimmed...

I think she has delusions of grandeur, the way she writes, like the wrong that's she committed (and I'm not saying it isn't/wasn't wrong) ... but as if she has this immense power such that her wrong was so wrong it eclipses all other wrongs....

1. Yes, pretending to be Black (a la Rachel Dolezal) is wrong and worth condemning.But,
2. Get over yourself lady. Also,
3. Yawn.

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03 September 2020, 03:11 PM

Daniel

03 September 2020, 03:17 PM

Daniel

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Originally posted by ShiroKuro:
Ok, not the most important detail here, but

quote:
I am not a vulture vulture. I am a culture leech.

Is there something I'm missing here? She sets this comment out on it's own line, infused with profundity.... But it's just sort of, meh? I'm wondering, so is being a leech that much worse than a vulture? Aren't they both equally bad in their own ways??

I confess I sort of stopped reading after that and mostly (barely) skimmed...

I think she has delusions of grandeur, the way she writes, like the wrong that's she committed (and I'm not saying it isn't/wasn't wrong) ... but as if she has this immense power such that her wrong was so wrong it eclipses all other wrongs....

1. Yes, pretending to be Black (a la Rachel Dolezal) is wrong and worth condemning.But,
2. Get over yourself lady. Also,
3. Yawn.

I don't think she means they're bad or worse. I think she means they're different. My guess is she means a vulture is malignant but a leech sucks up and absorbs knowledge. Just a guess and nope, I'm not going to click on it.

03 September 2020, 03:33 PM

Piano*Dad

quote:
2. Get over yourself lady. Also,
3. Yawn.

03 September 2020, 05:02 PM

ShiroKuro

Ok, at least I wasn't the only one to react that way!

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03 September 2020, 05:22 PM

pianojuggler

I think you mean Rachel Dolezal.

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03 September 2020, 05:45 PM

CHAS

Will there be a book soon? Will they pay me to read it?

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03 September 2020, 05:58 PM

wtg

Put it on your list right after Sarah Huckabee Sanders' book....

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03 September 2020, 06:05 PM

pianojuggler

quote:
Originally posted by wtg:
Put it on your list right after Sarah Huckabee Sanders' book....

Well, apparently we've now seen the best tidbit from that. I-1 told her she should move to North Korea and "take one for the team" after KJU make a pass at her.

I don't think I need to read anything more.

And the visua....

...oh, never mind.

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03 September 2020, 07:02 PM

Piano*Dad

WaPo story on her

Not Completely Unsympathetic

I wonder if her work is any good. Perhaps it is.

03 September 2020, 07:04 PM

jon-nyc

I can’t believe you guys are invalidating her lived experience like this.

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03 September 2020, 07:18 PM

Piano*Dad

03 September 2020, 08:01 PM

ShiroKuro

quote:
Originally posted by Piano*Dad:
WaPo story on her

Not Completely Unsympathetic

That wasn't exactly how I read their "tone" ... After all the very last comment in the WaPo was

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“It’s really disgusting," she said.

In any case, WaPo doesn't have to go after her, everyone else will.

Wonder how long till she's placed on leave at GWU and eventually fired...

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03 September 2020, 08:02 PM

CHAS

quote:
Originally posted by jon-nyc:
I can’t believe you guys are invalidating her lived experience like this.

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