[utahagen]

I feel sorry for her because she's obviously nuts. Also — and I am being deadly serious — it isn't right that the people who are most vicious towards her for claiming to be black are the same people who aver that Caitlyn Jenner had a “right” to be declared female just because she considered herself a female. Compared to gender, race is incidental.

[BBell]

I agree. They are the same people who are defending the white guy in Florida who claims to be a Filipino women. I am not making that up.

[Sans-Culotte]

I feel sorry for her because she's obviously nuts. Also — and I am being deadly serious — it isn't right that the people who are most vicious towards her for claiming to be black are the same people who aver that Caitlyn Jenner had a “right” to be declared female just because she considered herself a female. Compared to gender, race is incidental.

I don't understand the backlash against her either. Now that genders can change on the fly ("Gender fluidity") I don't see why this Dolezal idiot cannot identify as black. She doesn't have to mutilate herself, and it only requires her getting her hair cornrowed or 'fro'd to look the part.

[Nevadan]

Good point. I think that if the scandal of her faking blackness had erupted a year later when more people had accepted the lunacy that it is perfectly “normal” to choose your gender, she would have been more accepted. Still, she was a white woman choosing to be black. Being a white person is an obvious obstacle. There is no absolution for “whiteness”.