Here’s Why You Must Not Compare Caitlyn Jenner and Rachel Dolezal

MTV ^ | 6/12/2015 | Rachel Paoletta

[tcrlaf]

As Rachel Dolezal’s story unravels on- and offline, the Internet has followed suit with questions of its own. In a recent interview, Dolezal’s parents said they’re “both of Caucasian and European descent,” and their now 37-year-old daughter — the president of Spokane’s NAACP chapter — has been pretending to be black for the last decade.

On Twitter today, several hashtags about Rachel were trending, including #transracial – a term that some users seemed to define as the idea that a person could be born as one race but assume another racial identity. The term — and the online conversation around it — was discussed in tandem with Caitlyn Jenner’s gender.

Here’s the thing: The conversation around being “transracial,” which has manifested in comparisons and memes like these, is transphobia and racism operating under the guise of a philosophical conversation

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The conversation around being “transracial,” which has manifested in comparisons and memes like these, is transphobia and racism operating under the guise of a philosophical conversation

So if I don't accept Bruce Jenner becoming Caitlyn Jenner then I am a bigot, but if I do accept Racheal Dolezal becoming Black then I am a bigot. Why is sex/gender just a state of mind, but race is not? Political Correctness is turning against itself, so now in many cases to be politically correct is simultaneously to be politically incorrect.

[pabianice]

Transhuman?

[Nevadan]

re: You know, I don’t care what people want to call themselves. If you think you’re a lion, so what? As long as you aren’t hunting folks, who cares? The problem is when the mentally insane demand that everyone else accept their insanity, especially when they want to use government to punish any dissent. That is where we have to draw the line.

Good point and excellent response I will remember. I had someone yesterday ask what the big deal was. If it is ok with the NAACP that their head is a faux Black, why should it matter to anyone else? The problem with Rachel Dolezal is that we will be expected to accept her trans-racial insanity because the template has already by set by the PC liberal crowd. People have a right to self-identify. Once that door is open, pure craziness follows.

[Nevadan]

re: If transracial were to be accepted, it would utterly destroy the neat little categories of Designated Victim Group (DVG) and Designated Oppressor Group (DOG) they’ve slotted people into. If people can remove themselves from a DOG to a DVG by an act of will, they’ve lost the game. There’s no logical way to defend their position, but that’ never bothered them much.

Good observation!

[concerned about politics]

Leftists have to bend into all sorts of shapes to pretend you can change your sex but not your skin color.

Yep. If people can be "born that way" if they're homo, then why can't trans-racial, trans-species, or trans-able people also be "born that way?"
"Who are we to judge" what they choose to be "inside?" Wouldn't it be hypocritical for the radical left to discriminate against or be bigoted toward any or all kinds of trans-whatever-they-want-to-be-today people?

[Alex Murphy]

...If transracial were to be accepted, it would utterly destroy the neat little categories of Designated Victim Group (DVG) and Designated Oppressor Group (DOG) they’ve slotted people into. If people can remove themselves from a DOG to a DVG by an act of will, they’ve lost the game. There’s no logical way to defend their position, but that’ never bothered them much.

And on that very subject:

Here's the introductory paragraph:

"Microaggressions are the everyday verbal, nonverbal, and environmental slights, snubs, or insults, whether intentional or unintentional, that communicate hostile, derogatory, or negative messages to target persons based solely upon their marginalized group membership (from Diversity in the Classroom, UCLA Diversity & Faculty Development, 2014). The first step in addressing microaggressions is to recognize when a microaggression has occurred and what message it may be sending. The context of the relationship and situation is critical. Below are common themes to which microaggressions attach."

The document then lists a series of themes, such as "Alien In One’s Own Land," "Ascription of Intelligence," "Color Blindness," and "Myth of Meritocracy." Next to the themes, it gives examples of the microaggression within that category, and then an interpretation of the message sent.
-- from today's thread Warning: This May Be Interpreted By Some As Extremely Microaggressive

[tcrlaf]

BREAKING

Racheal Dolezal resigns as Spokane NAACP President
https://twitter.com/PzFeed

[Desron13]

I just don't get what the problem is here. This courageous formerly white woman has found the perfect way to surrender her “White Privilege” and now she is being attacked for it. Isn't this what the race hustlers at all the universities have been pining for these last twenty or so years? Just think what would happen if every white person in the country did this. Where would their claim of white privilege be then?

[Ready4Freddy]

I recall a mention of your phone book reference, not sure it was from the Jerk, but it’s definitely appropriate w/ Racial Rachel. lol

[SpaceBar]

The left are backed into a logical corner and they know it. If you can have your genitalia mutilated and take injections to swing your secondary sexual characteristics the other way, and that makes you the other way, then someone who takes melanin injections or gets a nice tan, frizzes their hair, and listens to hip-hop, then they are, by the left’s own standards, black. Period. And if they want to press the issue, then they'll need race-police, proving that they are the nazis they accuse everyone else of being.