Posted on 06/12/2015 10:43:35 PM PDT by Dallas59
If transgender people can do their thing and receive special treatment even when their DNA is 100 percent the opposite of what they want to be, why can't I claim to be Mexican and get special benefits?
As a trans-alien who identifies as Klingon, I demand the government pay for my cranial ridge implants.
Now bring me some bloodwine, you Peta’Q!
:)
LUMBA!
LOL!
Best. Comeback. EVAH.
Me. I am the whitest man alive. In fact, I have no melanin whatsoever. I am the Uber-Honkey! 
I’m wondering if there’s even a law governing which category you must check. Is anyone ever asked to provide evidence?
Then I found this case...
These firefighters got into trouble with the law for falsely identifying their "race." They were asked to show evidence:
We will be the real rebels.
I see myself with a second income.
That's just who I am.
I identify as a Trans-Am on Fridays during cheerleader charity carwashes
I always tick the "Other" box when filling out a form since, short of a genetic test, I really have no way of knowing or proving who my ancestors slept with or were raped by. But according to this legal opinion, apparently I now have to check with others in the "Other" category to see if they consider me part of their group.
I wonder if liberals ever consider how silly all of their contortions look to rational people.
Oh come on, liberals, consider AND rational all in the same short sentence ??? The answer is not just no, it’s HELL NO !
[...] the employer-submitted EEO information is grounded in the subjective assessments of individual personnel administrators - who are not, one might suspect, entirely disinterested in the outcome - about whether an employee, for example, "looks Black" or "seems Hispanic." This information is judged against self-reported MSA data. This mechanism, which juxtaposes the apples of self-reported race and ethnicity with the oranges of stereotyped group ascription, is the foundation of federal EEO enforcement. [...]
Heady stuff!
And funny how, in the same paper, "gender" is considered to be much easier to categorize.
Regards,
We all should start our own group, known as “Other.” ;-)
Some sources say “Other” is for “race unknown.” But probably most people could make that claim. My ancestors hail from the Mediterranean. Our family looks like we cover the gamut, and our surname sounds ambiguous.
If enough people argued about which category they fit into, maybe the gov’t would drop the categories.
Maybe Ms. Dolezal is on to something. LOL.
Uh-oh. Good catch. I didn't notice that.
Copied from the text:
In drawing distinctions between individual human beings, certain tasks are easier than others. In the context of "affirmative action" and other preferential programs, the easiest differentiating principle to discuss or administer is sex. In this area, human beings come only in two biological flavors, each fairly easily distinguished by a characteristic chromosomal pattern of XX (female) or XY (male). Chromosome sets such as XXY can occur, but they are quite rare. For the most part, the male/female dichotomy is one of conceptual clarity.
I just noticed the paper was published in 1994. Wow. By today's standards, the writer would be a "right-wing bigot." LOL.
I like the cut of your jib!
Yes, it's amazing what revolution in mores and cultural norms has taken place in the span of a scant twenty years!
Regards,
In 1913 one Sicilian brother immigrates to NYC, another to Buenos Aires.
Both raise families and their offspring always married within the Italian ethny.
102 years later, a BA cousin immigrates to NYC and moves in with one of his distant cousins.
The BA cousin, despite identical ancestry and appearance, is considered Hispanic and eligible for all the perks, while his NYC cousin is simply a boring old white guy.
Now you know why the category is “Hispanic” and not “Latin”. Latin covers a whole broader spectrum, including most Italian, some French and a few Romanians.
Actually, if there were any logic to it, “Latino” would cover Brazilians, Portuguese, French, Haitians, Italians, Romanians, some Belgians, some Swiss, as well as all the “Hispanics.” Among others.
There is not, of course, any logic to it.
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