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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Honest question. What difference does it make if she identifies as Black? Is this not the same as females who identify as males? Males who identify as females?

It seems hypocritical to me as a society. [/quote]

I do think it matters if she uses her fake race to her advantage, but of course it’s hypocritical. If people can be transgender, why not trans-race?
Also, this is what comes from so much focus on race and creating policies and hiring/admissions standards based on race, a trait no one chooses and is born with. Race is a continuum, and a social construct. People are people. [/quote]
She was already privileged, claimed to be black to be even more privileged. Took a scholarship and a position meant for someone in need[/quote]

That’s the strangest part. It sounds insane in this climate to claim she did this to claim a privilege but if you really take a moment to step back and look at it, you can’t help but conclude that yes, in this instance she was definitely co-opting another race specifically to exploit an opportunity and steal a spot in academia that was reserved only for a woman of color. In general, I do not generally think you can make a case for “black privilege” in America, but with “diversity hires” especially in academia right now it can be argued that yes, her ability to (aggressively) pass herself off as a “person of color” absolutely was her using her assumed identity as a privilege that gave her access to a space she had no right to occupy.

This woman seems nothing but exploitative to me.

Rachel Dolezal’s story seems different to me somehow. I have read about her circumstance and did wonder if she legitimately does have a claim the way that transgender people have a claim. When she consistently and persistently insiststed (and still does) that “I FEEL like a black woman.” And says that nothing about her identity resonates with whiteness or being white, I have to admit it sounds exactly the same to my ears as the argument made by those who identify as another gender. I’m a Cis woman so when a trans woman says  “I identify as a woman because I feeeeel like a woman” I don’t even know what to say because I don’t know what “feeling” like a woman feels like?? I just AM a woman. And if I say “that’s ridiculous! You’re clearly a dude! I’M a woman!” I can’t figure how that’s not the same as the objection that people of color have toward Rachel Dolezal. I don’t know. I’m not saying I’m right thinking in this. I just don’t get how one is fine and the other nope.[/quote]

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