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H.H
Oct 24, 2006

August is the Cruelest Month
well, it seems like the media went full retard on this poo poo:

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/06/rachel-dolezal-and-the-history-of-passing-for-black/395882/?utm_source=SFFB

http://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/rachel-dolezal-black-like-her






tl;dr: transracialism is now a thing :negative:

i'm going to stop reading anything professional journalists write, godammit.

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Fetus Tree
Feb 2, 2003
Probation
Can't post for 2 years!
i dont really care what people think they are or were born as or want to be

neither should you

relax


E: ps people have been 'transracial' for a long time, pick up a history book or some poo poo

Hector Beerlioz
Jun 16, 2010

aw, hec
Once you go black you can go back

Ride The Gravitron
May 2, 2008

by FactsAreUseless
could be worse, they could be publishing articles about fake rapes on college campuses.

Kempo Yellow Belt
Jan 5, 2012
Fun Shoe

H.H posted:

well, it seems like the media went full retard on this poo poo:

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/06/rachel-dolezal-and-the-history-of-passing-for-black/395882/?utm_source=SFFB

http://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/rachel-dolezal-black-like-her






tl;dr: transracialism is now a thing :negative:

i'm going to stop reading anything professional journalists write, godammit.

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/whoopi-goldberg-and-raven-symone-defend-rachel-dolezal-on-the-view/

Some pretty hosed up stuff right there.

F Stop Fitzgerald
Dec 12, 2010

Rachel Dolezal is not black—by lineage or lifelong experience—yet I find her deceptions less troubling than the vexed criteria being used to exclude her.

what

Machai
Feb 21, 2013

Race isn't even a real thing. We are all human. Furries are the true transracials.

H.H
Oct 24, 2006

August is the Cruelest Month

Machai posted:

Race isn't even a real thing. We are all human. Furries are the true transracials.

race =! species

plus, furries are even stupider than the fake black woman.

Matey
Mar 28, 2008

eat food

Black is wack
White is tight



except more like the opposite

Jerry Mumphrey
Mar 11, 2004

by zen death robot

(and can't post for 4 years!)

the only reason a helicopter can lift a bee and not the other way round is the size difference

H.H
Oct 24, 2006

August is the Cruelest Month

Jerry Mumphrey posted:

the only reason a helicopter can lift a bee and not the other way round is the size difference

wow, never thougth of that. youre right.

any more cool observations? legit interested

I am Toni Lippi
Aug 16, 2004
Her pretending to be black will never affect me so I don't care.

kdrudy
Sep 19, 2009

Transracialism was already a thing, it described the things children adopted by parents of another race deal with.

It is not cosplaying as another race you desperately want to be.

Incomplete Fish
Apr 22, 2006

Grimey Drawer
You really shouldn't read The Atlantic unless you're actively seeking out bad opinions on things.

Even though the tan white lady with the fivehead is the president of that thing I'm pretty sure the issue isn't that she "looks black" or wishes that she were born another race, but that she completely fabricated her past life history/experiences. It upsets me that The Atlantic article seems to just focus on her "challenging the concept of race" as opposed to you know, her being a unrepentant liar for years and years and that she actually made a career out of it.

Nooner
Mar 26, 2011

AN A+ OPSTER (:

Incomplete Fish posted:

You really shouldn't read The Atlantic unless you're actively seeking out bad opinions on things.

Even though the tan white lady with the fivehead is the president of that thing I'm pretty sure the issue isn't that she "looks black" or wishes that she were born another race, but that she completely fabricated her past life history/experiences. It upsets me that The Atlantic article seems to just focus on her "challenging the concept of race" as opposed to you know, her being a unrepentant liar for years and years and that she actually made a career out of it.

hosed up if true

ghlbtsk
Apr 19, 2005

these bath mats
are
GORGEOUS
If you threw a de-winged bee and a rotorless helicopter off a building, which would hit the ground first?

Nooner
Mar 26, 2011

AN A+ OPSTER (:

ghlbtsk posted:

If you threw a de-winged bee and a rotorless helicopter off a building, which would hit the ground first?

It depends which is more aerodynamic I think

H.H
Oct 24, 2006

August is the Cruelest Month

Incomplete Fish posted:

You really shouldn't read The Atlantic unless you're actively seeking out bad opinions on things.

Even though the tan white lady with the fivehead is the president of that thing I'm pretty sure the issue isn't that she "looks black" or wishes that she were born another race, but that she completely fabricated her past life history/experiences. It upsets me that The Atlantic article seems to just focus on her "challenging the concept of race" as opposed to you know, her being a unrepentant liar for years and years and that she actually made a career out of it.

true, she got a full ride scholarship to college because she was thought to be black, that's outright criminal fraud.

Alec Bald Snatch
Sep 12, 2012

by exmarx

Incomplete Fish posted:

It upsets me that The Atlantic article seems to just focus on her "challenging the concept of race" as opposed to you know, her being a unrepentant liar for years and years and that she actually made a career out of it.

how do you think careers are made

Blistex
Oct 30, 2003

Macho Business
Donkey Wrestler

Incomplete Fish posted:

You really shouldn't read The Atlantic unless you're actively seeking out bad opinions on things.

Even though the tan white lady with the fivehead is the president of that thing I'm pretty sure the issue isn't that she "looks black" or wishes that she were born another race, but that she completely fabricated her past life history/experiences. It upsets me that The Atlantic article seems to just focus on her "challenging the concept of race" as opposed to you know, her being a unrepentant liar for years and years and that she actually made a career out of it.

Didn't she finally get outed because the post office said, "She planted all the hate mail she got" and her parents said, "we never abused her, and by-the-way she's not black." ?

BrutalistMcDonalds
Oct 4, 2012


Lipstick Apathy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUt1BMw1Qtg

DONKEY SALAMI
Jun 28, 2008

donkey? donkey?

Knock knock
Who's there?
Black
Black who
Knock knock
Who's there?
Black
Black who?
Knock knock
Who's there
Orange
Orange who?
Orange you excited to be trans racial.

quakster
Jul 21, 2007

by FactsAreUseless

F Stop Fitzgerald posted:

Rachel Dolezal is not black—by lineage or lifelong experience—yet I find her deceptions less troubling than the vexed criteria being used to exclude her.

what
cultural, uh, desync, i think. nobody understands anyone else, society itself falls apart, it's great

raditts
Feb 21, 2001

The Kwanzaa Bot is here to protect me.


It's not appropriation, it's "challenging the construct of race"

raditts fucked around with this message at 07:21 on Jun 16, 2015

H.H
Oct 24, 2006

August is the Cruelest Month

raditts posted:

It's not appropriation, it's "challenging the construct of race"

lmao
deconstructing race. making an art of her race. lmao, just lmao

Dungeon Ecology
Feb 9, 2011

sometimes u just do anything it takes to get the job u know

raditts
Feb 21, 2001

The Kwanzaa Bot is here to protect me.


H.H posted:

lmao
deconstructing race. making an art of her race. lmao, just lmao

Just to make sure nobody thinks I came up with that

Blackface lady posted:

In a statement on Monday announcing her resignation, Dolezal reaffirmed her belief that “challenging the construct of race is at the core of evolving human consciousness,” while voicing concern that “the dialogue has unexpectedly shifted internationally to my personal identity in the context of defining race and ethnicity.”

yes, how "unexpected," she is a real dialogue trendsetter

I guess I can understand how she passed for black in Spokane, Washington which sounds like the kind of place where people have never actually seen a black person, but how she passed all the way through Howard University is the real mystery. I think it must have been some kind of extreme "emperor's new clothes" situation where she thought she was fooling everyone and everyone knew but nobody wanted to be the first to say anything.

H.H
Oct 24, 2006

August is the Cruelest Month
can we get to that period of history where everybody are a uniform light brown colour already?
that's the only way to stop this poo poo from happening. also US cops will stop shooting innocent civilians of the opposite colour (or at least will do it less often)

quakster
Jul 21, 2007

by FactsAreUseless

raditts posted:

Just to make sure nobody thinks I came up with that


yes, how "unexpected," she is a real dialogue trendsetter

I guess I can understand how she passed for black in Spokane, Washington which sounds like the kind of place where people have never actually seen a black person, but how she passed all the way through Howard University is the real mystery. I think it must have been some kind of extreme "emperor's new clothes" situation where she thought she was fooling everyone and everyone knew but nobody wanted to be the first to say anything.
universities are poo poo, hth

Helical Nightmares
Apr 30, 2009
Rachel Dolezal has a right to be black according to cnn.

http://www.cnn.com/2015/06/15/opinions/rich-rachel-dolezal/index.html

H.H posted:

can we get to that period of history where everybody are a uniform light brown colour already?
that's the only way to stop this poo poo from happening. also US cops will stop shooting innocent civilians of the opposite colour (or at least will do it less often)

Let's get real. Cops are never going to stop killing civilians regardless of color.

BrutalistMcDonalds
Oct 4, 2012


Lipstick Apathy
i'm a white-to-black transracial person

wassup my homies out there postin' up in this thread

Helical Nightmares
Apr 30, 2009
God I wish Patrice O'neal was still alive.

H.H
Oct 24, 2006

August is the Cruelest Month

Helical Nightmares posted:

Rachel Dolezal has a right to be black according to cnn.

http://www.cnn.com/2015/06/15/opinions/rich-rachel-dolezal/index.html


Let's get real. Cops are never going to stop killing civilians regardless of color.

youre prob right

quakster
Jul 21, 2007

by FactsAreUseless

Helical Nightmares posted:

Let's get real. Cops are never going to stop killing civilians regardless of color.
it's natural selection; if a cop can get away with violence, there is demand for violence. if there is demand for violence, the supply ain't goin' nowhere

quakster
Jul 21, 2007

by FactsAreUseless
a bunch of old whites approve of a minstrel act and their houseniggers agree

the panacea
May 10, 2008

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This gets even better now that it's out that she sued Howard for racial discrimination because she was white (in2001)

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/bizarre/rachel-dolezal-discrimination-lawsuit-786451

quote:

According to a Court of Appeals opinion, Dolezal's lawsuit “claimed discrimination based on race, pregnancy, family responsibilities and gender.” She alleged that Smith and other school officials improperly blocked her appointment to a teaching assistant post, rejected her application for a post-graduate instructorship, and denied her scholarship aid while she was a student.

The court opinion also noted that Dolezal claimed that the university’s decision to remove some of her artworks from a February 2001 student exhibition was “motivated by a discriminatory purpose to favor African-American students over” her.

quakster
Jul 21, 2007

by FactsAreUseless
"i have a black friend called oprah, you might have heard of her, and she is an authority on racial relations. here's her opinion about this,"

Vincent Van Goatse
Nov 8, 2006

Enjoy every sandwich.

Smellrose

the panacea posted:

This gets even better now that it's out that she sued Howard for racial discrimination because she was white (in2001)

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/bizarre/rachel-dolezal-discrimination-lawsuit-786451

what a loving train wreck of a human being

Helical Nightmares
Apr 30, 2009

the panacea posted:

This gets even better now that it's out that she sued Howard for racial discrimination because she was white (in2001)

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/bizarre/rachel-dolezal-discrimination-lawsuit-786451

Wait a minute. This is after she got the scholarship to Howard because she claimed she was beaten with a whip and submitted african american art? :psyduck:

Literally playing both sides of the field. Breathtaking. :golfclap:

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Cobra-Commander
Jun 15, 2015
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVD_JuzklFo

I can be black if I want to be

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