Hilaria Baldwin - At it again

[Anonymous]

I can't help feeling a little bit sorry for her. She has been excessively attacked and ridiculed for what she had done. She has harmed no one by pretending to be spanish. I am spanish and I don't find it offensive or feel like she has stolen my culture or anything. I am just shocked that she felt the need to lie like this about her upbringing, she must have some serious insecurities.

She tried to make people think her family was spanish or that she grew up in Spain when she didn't, but why would I find that offensive? She obviously has a problem but she has not disrespected my culture in any way.

Also, for me she has never pretended to be the kind of inmigrant you are talking about, she never said she was poor and had to struggle a lot before getting this wealthy life. I don't know what image you have of spanish inmigrants in the USA. I dont care if you consider us brown or white, but spanish people only move there for high paying jobs normally.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I barely knew anything about this woman before other than some fleeting info on a celebrity news piece...I am familiar with the Baldwin brothers just through the years, and, lately, his SNL impressions of Trump (which I liked!) Anyway, I'm a youngish boomer, about Alec's age) so I'm looking at this maybe from a different perspective. I just do not see a story here and I feel that the original tweet and subsequent investigation created a story where there was none. Intrigued and not currently working, and bored from not doing my usual things, I delved into the pieces and "video evidence."

I don't think this woman, Hilaria, conned anyone. The Spanish culture lives largely in her home, very similarly to a lot of my family and friends who are Jewish. Why isn't this the same thing? We all grew up speaking two or three languages, English, Hebrew, and Yiddish- yet most of us have had never been to Israel until adults or at all. My family has a mild accent, and family members in New York really do, yet do not live in Israel. My family calls me by a different name, and many of my friends, who are not Israeli, and not Eastern European, had full-on Jewish weddings with food and drink and language and dress and custom. They've named their kids Hebrew names. They have Judaica artwork all over their houses. Some have visited Israel, some have not. Some have friends and family who live there, some do not.

Er....do any of your non-Jewish friends had Jewish weddings? Pretended to be Jewish? Said, in Israel WE do things differently?

I am struck by how you aren't able to see a difference between someone living a true heritage vs. an invented one.

Yes, this. I am Indian American, born and raised in the US, but I’ve lived in India for a year and a half. Even so - I do not say, “In India, WE eat this”. I would say that about America but not India. I also lived in the UK for years but would not say, “In the UK, we do this”. I would always say “they”.

I am Indian who immigrated here as an adult. I have relatives, born and raised in the US, dating and marrying people who are White and Christians, who have lived in different countries for several years, and who have remained close to "Indian Hindu" customs they have no clue or context about. It is very much part of their identity. I actually find it disconcerting because they cling to their Indianess - culture, religion, rituals, food, language, clothes, daily life - when they have no real reason or understanding of it. It is all surface mimicry. Monkey see, monkey do. If it helps to understand this psyche better - we are of North Indian Punjabi descent. My people from the land of "lots of agriculture and hardly any culture" (and I say that with lot of fondness). I look at Hillaria and I feel she is just like an ABCD (American Born Confused Desi) Punjabi. Her culture is the culture of her individual household. She is not lying but she is American Born Confused Spanish.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I barely knew anything about this woman before other than some fleeting info on a celebrity news piece...I am familiar with the Baldwin brothers just through the years, and, lately, his SNL impressions of Trump (which I liked!) Anyway, I'm a youngish boomer, about Alec's age) so I'm looking at this maybe from a different perspective. I just do not see a story here and I feel that the original tweet and subsequent investigation created a story where there was none. Intrigued and not currently working, and bored from not doing my usual things, I delved into the pieces and "video evidence."

I don't think this woman, Hilaria, conned anyone. The Spanish culture lives largely in her home, very similarly to a lot of my family and friends who are Jewish. Why isn't this the same thing? We all grew up speaking two or three languages, English, Hebrew, and Yiddish- yet most of us have had never been to Israel until adults or at all. My family has a mild accent, and family members in New York really do, yet do not live in Israel. My family calls me by a different name, and many of my friends, who are not Israeli, and not Eastern European, had full-on Jewish weddings with food and drink and language and dress and custom. They've named their kids Hebrew names. They have Judaica artwork all over their houses. Some have visited Israel, some have not. Some have friends and family who live there, some do not.

Er....do any of your non-Jewish friends had Jewish weddings? Pretended to be Jewish? Said, in Israel WE do things differently?

I am struck by how you aren't able to see a difference between someone living a true heritage vs. an invented one.

Yes, this. I am Indian American, born and raised in the US, but I’ve lived in India for a year and a half. Even so - I do not say, “In India, WE eat this”. I would say that about America but not India. I also lived in the UK for years but would not say, “In the UK, we do this”. I would always say “they”.

I am Indian who immigrated here as an adult. I have relatives, born and raised in the US, dating and marrying people who are White and Christians, who have lived in different countries for several years, and who have remained close to "Indian Hindu" customs they have no clue or context about. It is very much part of their identity. I actually find it disconcerting because they cling to their Indianess - culture, religion, rituals, food, language, clothes, daily life - when they have no real reason or understanding of it. It is all surface mimicry. Monkey see, monkey do. If it helps to understand this psyche better - we are of North Indian Punjabi descent. My people from the land of "lots of agriculture and hardly any culture" (and I say that with lot of fondness). I look at Hillaria and I feel she is just like an ABCD (American Born Confused Desi) Punjabi. Her culture is the culture of her individual household. She is not lying but she is American Born Confused Spanish.

??? What ?

[Anonymous]

She's not a confused Desi. Her parents aren't Spanish.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Hilaria's mother was not a "professor at Harvard Medical School." She supervised a few residents at Mass General. My mother-in-law knew her.

Whaaa?????

In defense of the mother, my husband was at Beth Israel when we lived in Boston and did the same and everyone who supervised residents was called associate professor at Harvard. Her mom was a legit doctor with a career.

Agree with this

This is how it works in academic medicine. My DH is an attending physician at Children’s; only by virtue of that fact, he also has an academic appointment as an associate professor at GWU.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Hilaria's mother was not a "professor at Harvard Medical School." She supervised a few residents at Mass General. My mother-in-law knew her.

Whaaa?????

In defense of the mother, my husband was at Beth Israel when we lived in Boston and did the same and everyone who supervised residents was called associate professor at Harvard. Her mom was a legit doctor with a career.

Um no. I worked at HMS and they were at best clinical faculty

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The community of through hikers spotted a fraud a mile away -- the rest of us bought her dumb book and saw the movie.

I'm just happy you said that book was dumb. I hated it so much and thought I was the only one!

Thank you! I am surprised at how few people agree with me.

I was shocked and disappointed, tbh. I had genuinely liked her book Dear Sugar (and that is faked as well!).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Hilaria's mother was not a "professor at Harvard Medical School." She supervised a few residents at Mass General. My mother-in-law knew her.

Whaaa?????

In defense of the mother, my husband was at Beth Israel when we lived in Boston and did the same and everyone who supervised residents was called associate professor at Harvard. Her mom was a legit doctor with a career.

Um no. I worked at HMS and they were at best clinical faculty

Kathryn was an assistant (not associate) clinical professor to be exact.

[Anonymous]

Guys, maybe she taught a night class. But Dr Mom didn’t lie to us. She's keeping her tweethole shut.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Hilaria's mother was not a "professor at Harvard Medical School." She supervised a few residents at Mass General. My mother-in-law knew her.

Whaaa?????

In defense of the mother, my husband was at Beth Israel when we lived in Boston and did the same and everyone who supervised residents was called associate professor at Harvard. Her mom was a legit doctor with a career.

It doesn't appear that the parents are contributing to this scandal. At least they haven't fooled us, the public.

The parents are part of this. Their plan is for II to be part of HIlaria's "living clearly" bullsh!t. It bombed however.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Hilaria's mother was not a "professor at Harvard Medical School." She supervised a few residents at Mass General. My mother-in-law knew her.

Whaaa?????

In defense of the mother, my husband was at Beth Israel when we lived in Boston and did the same and everyone who supervised residents was called associate professor at Harvard. Her mom was a legit doctor with a career.

Agree with this

This is how it works in academic medicine. My DH is an attending physician at Children’s; only by virtue of that fact, he also has an academic appointment as an associate professor at GWU.

My husband also is at Children's and had the same GW title. But the title is *clinical* associate professor, which is different from (tenure-track) professor. Same goes for research professor, as I was in my last job—it’s different from the title of professor. If she left off the clinical part, I’d say it’s not a total lie, just misleading. Clinical tract professors don’t have teaching and research expectations, although they supervise trainees.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Hilaria's mother was not a "professor at Harvard Medical School." She supervised a few residents at Mass General. My mother-in-law knew her.

Whaaa?????

In defense of the mother, my husband was at Beth Israel when we lived in Boston and did the same and everyone who supervised residents was called associate professor at Harvard. Her mom was a legit doctor with a career.

It doesn't appear that the parents are contributing to this scandal. At least they haven't fooled us, the public.

The parents are part of this. Their plan is for II to be part of HIlaria's "living clearly" bullsh!t. It bombed however.

Who is II?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Hilaria's mother was not a "professor at Harvard Medical School." She supervised a few residents at Mass General. My mother-in-law knew her.

Whaaa?????

In defense of the mother, my husband was at Beth Israel when we lived in Boston and did the same and everyone who supervised residents was called associate professor at Harvard. Her mom was a legit doctor with a career.

Um no. I worked at HMS and they were at best clinical faculty

Clinical track professors are still called associate professors, and not everyone at BIDMC wild necessarily have been clinical track only. See, e.g., here: https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/cvdepi/program-members/beth-israel-deaconness-medical-center/.

[Anonymous]

As I suspected, Hilaria LOVES this scandal. This is her personal pee s3x tape. https://okmagazine.com/exclusives/hilaria-baldwin-secretly-loving-attention-amid-fake-accent-drama/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I barely knew anything about this woman before other than some fleeting info on a celebrity news piece...I am familiar with the Baldwin brothers just through the years, and, lately, his SNL impressions of Trump (which I liked!) Anyway, I'm a youngish boomer, about Alec's age) so I'm looking at this maybe from a different perspective. I just do not see a story here and I feel that the original tweet and subsequent investigation created a story where there was none. Intrigued and not currently working, and bored from not doing my usual things, I delved into the pieces and "video evidence."

I don't think this woman, Hilaria, conned anyone. The Spanish culture lives largely in her home, very similarly to a lot of my family and friends who are Jewish. Why isn't this the same thing? We all grew up speaking two or three languages, English, Hebrew, and Yiddish- yet most of us have had never been to Israel until adults or at all. My family has a mild accent, and family members in New York really do, yet do not live in Israel. My family calls me by a different name, and many of my friends, who are not Israeli, and not Eastern European, had full-on Jewish weddings with food and drink and language and dress and custom. They've named their kids Hebrew names. They have Judaica artwork all over their houses. Some have visited Israel, some have not. Some have friends and family who live there, some do not.

Er....do any of your non-Jewish friends had Jewish weddings? Pretended to be Jewish? Said, in Israel WE do things differently?

I am struck by how you aren't able to see a difference between someone living a true heritage vs. an invented one.

Yes, this. I am Indian American, born and raised in the US, but I’ve lived in India for a year and a half. Even so - I do not say, “In India, WE eat this”. I would say that about America but not India. I also lived in the UK for years but would not say, “In the UK, we do this”. I would always say “they”.

I am Indian who immigrated here as an adult. I have relatives, born and raised in the US, dating and marrying people who are White and Christians, who have lived in different countries for several years, and who have remained close to "Indian Hindu" customs they have no clue or context about. It is very much part of their identity. I actually find it disconcerting because they cling to their Indianess - culture, religion, rituals, food, language, clothes, daily life - when they have no real reason or understanding of it. It is all surface mimicry. Monkey see, monkey do. If it helps to understand this psyche better - we are of North Indian Punjabi descent. My people from the land of "lots of agriculture and hardly any culture" (and I say that with lot of fondness). I look at Hillaria and I feel she is just like an ABCD (American Born Confused Desi) Punjabi. Her culture is the culture of her individual household. She is not lying but she is American Born Confused Spanish.

Punjabi American here. You are wrong about me and you are wrong about Hilaria.

You don't even follow what's going on. Pot kettle black much?