The surprising ways Caitlyn Jenner and Rachel Dolezal are now linked (liberal whining alert)

Washington Post ^ | June 15, 2015 | Justin Wm. Moyer

[Zakeet]

Why is Caitlyn Jenner treated as a groundbreaking cultural hero and Rachel Dolezal condemned as a charlatan? If it’s okay to be transgender, what’s wrong with being “transracial”?

With those taunts, as the weekend opened, the right baited the left and the mainstream media, which to conservatives are generally one and the same.

Many in the mainstream took the bait, and the cases of Jenner and Dolezal were forever intertwined.

[Zakeet]

This right wing nut has another taunt for the mainstream media!

[PGalt]

A couple of boobs bursting with pride.

[The_Victor]

I'm OK with transracial, so long as we all get to claim to be black for the purposes of affirmative action.

I think I'll go back to engineering school claiming to be a black woman.

[Mercat]

“facing claims from a white Montana couple that they are her parents.” So they are calling her white parents liars?

[Howie66]

Let me get this straight. Jenner is a woman because he claims to be. Dolezal is black because she claims to be.

This makes perfect sense.

Obama claims to be an American and a Christian, so I guess that makes it true as well.

Got it.

[Paladin2]

They are her transparents.

[FlingWingFlyer]

AMERICA has become infested with “transretards”. What a freak show.

[mmichaels1970]

If it’s okay to be transgender, what’s wrong with being “transracial”?

I thought the same thing. Libs claim that you can defy nature with regard to gender. Now watch them squirm they start to confront those who decide they are a black person trapped in a white person's body. I have a feeling black-america isn't going to be quite as ready for acceptance.

Imagine all of the EEO, college scholarships, grants, and quota-based systems out there that can be turned on their heads once it becomes acceptable for a person to "choose" their race as it appears now they are choosing their gender.

[mmichaels1970]

I think I'll go back to engineering school claiming to be a black woman.

That is what they are afraid of, and to me it's sort of a Pandora's box for them. Their pushing the bar on allowing folks to deny nature could bring their entire reparations-based platform crashing down.

[MNDude]

“the right baited the left and the mainstream media, “

Looks like you too Justin Moyer.

[The_Victor]

That is what they are afraid of, and to me it's sort of a Pandora's box for them. Their pushing the bar on allowing folks to deny nature could bring their entire reparations-based platform crashing down.

Yup. If we all get to claim to be whatever we feel we are racially, it's the end of affirmative action. We'll all be equal under the rules set aside for minorities.

[ImJustAnotherOkie]

I guess the meaning of “trans” is not in the scope of transition or the person is transitioning to another form of life to another.

It’s more in the meaning of transcontinental or occupying both continents. But if the latter is true wouldn’t ‘bi’ be more accurate.

Help me, I’m confused.

[Mercat]

I love this story. My sister in law said last night that its her favorite story since Anthony Wiener. And she’s something of a lib.

[MrB]

Angry black women on twitter are calling that the ultimate expression of “white privilege” - to claim “their” perks and still know you’re white.

I guess simply “knowing” you’re white is some sort of privilege.

[MrB]

“Transnational”, “transfaith”, trans-traitor.

[MNDude]

“Transracial identity is a concept that allows white people to indulge in blackness as a commodity, without having to actually engage with every facet of what being black entails — discrimination, marginalization, oppression, and so on,” Zeba Blay wrote. “It plays into racial stereotypes, and perpetuates the false idea that it is possible to ‘feel’ a race” — as Jenner “felt” she was a woman.

Serious, HOW can you feel something that you’ve never been before? Jenner, like myself really has NO clue what it feels like to be a woman.

Can I say “I feel like a bat?” Really? What does the feel like? No one knows.

As there are no major genetic differences between races, then it’s probably safe to say that Rachel had a good idea what it feels to be a black woman, as she was accepted to be one by all her associates.

[MrB]

We’ll all be equal under the rules set aside for minorities.

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I think that’s the greatest underlying fear, among minorities, about this situation - that YT will start encroaching on their perks.

[MrB]

This is the funniest thing in the news for at least a year.

[lakecumberlandvet]

Jenner and Dolezal and Warren all have at least two things in common: they are mentally defective and they crave attention.

[mmichaels1970]

“It feels like Dolezal is adopting the culture without carrying the burdens,” Jamelle Bouie wrote. “And with the fake father and the fake children, it seems like she’s deceiving people for the sake of an à la carte blackness, in which you take the best parts, and leave the pain aside.”

Well, one can argue that Jenner didn't carry the burdens of womanhood as well. Especially for a week or so out of every month.