College professor -“I am a white person who has incorrectly identified as Native my whole life.”

[Anonymous]

So disturbing to read about another white settler, Elizabeth Hoover (professor at UC Berkeley, attended Brown) who based on some family lore pretended to be indigenous, cosplays being indigenous, benefits academically being indigenous.

The Cal student paper published the story back in Nov but it is getting a lot of media coverage this week
https://dailycal.org/2022/11/01/campus-associate-professor-elizabeth-hoover-rescinds-claim-to-native-american-ancestry

Statement from former students
https://docs.google.com/document/u/1/d/e/2PACX-1vQBXq0rEI1qygmecbqjZtIBWORZc9ovd-Sl88SQcQ1OKyCXwOCkp18FVsO8MiGq3EstBSq1HN4YcKhN/pub?urp=gmail_link

Statement from former friend who realizes Hoover is a fraud
https://nativeappropriations.com/2023/05/a-letter-to-elizabeth-hoover.html

[Anonymous]

😁😁😁
Everything is about race in college

[Anonymous]

Just imagine whatever race you want to be each day when you wake up and enjoy.

[Anonymous]

"Pretendian" - that's a new one for me!

[Anonymous]

No different that Rachel Dolezal

[Anonymous]

I think it is funny as hell that she taught at st Olaf college. I can just see those smug MN liberals patting themselves on the back for hiring a Native woman to teach Native studies.

-st olaf grad

[Anonymous]

She should have studied something useful like math or science or CS instead of some bogus “studies” or whatever she was doing, and she wouldn’t be been ok

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No different that Rachel Dolezal

+1

Can't believe anyone would want to claim something other than who they are - for a job, or for education, etc. It is too easy to verify these days.

[Anonymous]

Lol

[Anonymous]

GROLIES gonna grol

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So disturbing to read about another white settler, Elizabeth Hoover (professor at UC Berkeley, attended Brown) who based on some family lore pretended to be indigenous, cosplays being indigenous, benefits academically being indigenous.

The Cal student paper published the story back in Nov but it is getting a lot of media coverage this week
https://dailycal.org/2022/11/01/campus-associate-professor-elizabeth-hoover-rescinds-claim-to-native-american-ancestry

Statement from former students
https://docs.google.com/document/u/1/d/e/2PACX-1vQBXq0rEI1qygmecbqjZtIBWORZc9ovd-Sl88SQcQ1OKyCXwOCkp18FVsO8MiGq3EstBSq1HN4YcKhN/pub?urp=gmail_link

Statement from former friend who realizes Hoover is a fraud
https://nativeappropriations.com/2023/05/a-letter-to-elizabeth-hoover.html

Why are you so disturbed OP? That’s an odd choice of words. I mean, I bet you could have seen yourself supporting Elizabeth Warren, right?

I am disturbed because I am not white, my husband isn’t white, and my kids aren’t white. It’s not cool white people benefiting from being non-white. Sometimes it really sucks not to white both in the US and abroad. I have never supported Elizabeth Warren.

DP
it’s arguably better to be not white in the US than white in an underdeveloped country
I don’t think anyone should benefit from either being white or non white tbh

Lol maybe in SA

[Anonymous]

Tangentially related, but my kids are multi-ethnic and come from three different countries. Our last name comes from a (highly-recognizable) country that's different than our country of nationality. Today I received an email about a college award that only exists for students from one of our countries. Our school sent it to us just because of our last name. Now I'm wondering if we missed out on other awards from our country of nationality, just because people don't know we're actually citizens of that country - nowhere is it obvious in any of our names! People are surprised when we say we're citizens of that country, because we don't look like we do.

Point is: belonging and identity are incredibly complex matters. What you see is not all there is!!!!!!

So please exercise a little grace.

[Anonymous]

She claims her mother misled her and brought her to tribal events (mother was likely also misled). I know MANY white people who were wrongly told they were native.

This knee jerk reaction seems wrong to me.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If gender is now accepted as fluid, why can't racial identity be similarly malleable?

+1 it’s what she identifies as that matters. This cal students are bigots

DP
I honestly can't figure out why identifying as a different gender is A-OK, but identifying as a different race is despicable. Is there any rhyme or reason to this madness?

[Anonymous]

Maybe finally we can stop affirmative action and stupid bean-counting for different races.


And everyone can identify as they bloody well want.