I like her and I think she gets treated unfairly. Shouldn’t people be able to identify as whatever they want, and I don’t think it’s fair she catches so much grief for it.
Why is it ok for one claim, and not the other? If Lemmy calls her a “race faker” then aren’t there people who are “gender fakers?” (I don’t agree with either take, by the way)
She once told Vanity Fair, “If people feel misled or deceived, then sorry that they feel that way, but I believe that’s more due to their definition and construct of race in their own minds than it is to my integrity or honesty, because I wouldn’t say I’m African American, but I would say I’m Black, and there’s a difference in those terms.”
It’s one thing to claim to identify and feel more comfortable with black culture, but another thing entirely to claim to be black. One is a legitimate choice, the other is fraud, to say nothing of the fact that it is disrespectful to people whose race has had to overcome a lot of inequities and atrocities, only for her, who descends from those caused those atrocities, to fraudulently adopt that legacy as her own.
I’ve known people like her before, maybe not as extreme or notorious, but they glom onto black culture because they think it’s cool. In reality, they are racists who recognize it, and are uncomfortable with it, so they go way to far in overcompensating for it.
I like her and I think she gets treated unfairly. Shouldn’t people be able to identify as whatever they want, and I don’t think it’s fair she catches so much grief for it.
Why is it ok for one claim, and not the other? If Lemmy calls her a “race faker” then aren’t there people who are “gender fakers?” (I don’t agree with either take, by the way)
She once told Vanity Fair, “If people feel misled or deceived, then sorry that they feel that way, but I believe that’s more due to their definition and construct of race in their own minds than it is to my integrity or honesty, because I wouldn’t say I’m African American, but I would say I’m Black, and there’s a difference in those terms.”
It’s one thing to claim to identify and feel more comfortable with black culture, but another thing entirely to claim to be black. One is a legitimate choice, the other is fraud, to say nothing of the fact that it is disrespectful to people whose race has had to overcome a lot of inequities and atrocities, only for her, who descends from those caused those atrocities, to fraudulently adopt that legacy as her own.
I’ve known people like her before, maybe not as extreme or notorious, but they glom onto black culture because they think it’s cool. In reality, they are racists who recognize it, and are uncomfortable with it, so they go way to far in overcompensating for it.