Post by Optimus on Oct 28, 2020 0:11:24 GMT -5
Here we go again. Yet ANOTHER white woman has been exposed for falsely claiming to be non-white.
I'm sure most of you recall Rachel Dolezal, former Spokane, WA chapter president of the NAACP, who was outed as a white woman pretending to be black.
Then, last month, there was Jessica Krug, a "black studies" professor who was outed as a white woman pretending to be black.
About a week or two later (also last month), there was CV Vitolo, a University of Washington-Madison graduate student who was outed as a white woman pretending to be black. She was outed in an anonymous article on Medium: medium.com/@polite_keppel_dinosaur_57/cv-vitolo-haddad-another-academic-racial-fraud-c5c41fe32110
And now we have Kelly Kean Sharpe, yet another "black studies" professor who was outed (also via an anonymous Medium article) as a white woman pretending to be hispanic (at least it wasn't black this time, I guess):
This is a curious phenomenon* that seems to be exclusive to the far-left and almost exclusively to females who are also in the woke humanities (basically, anything with the word "studies" in the title of the degree program and/or department). I've yet to see this in males** or people in the STEM fields or business schools, or conservatives (perhaps those stories are out there, but I'm not aware of any).
I don't know if the extremist ideology of the far-left creates within these people thoughts and behaviors that are indistinguishable from mental illness, or if the extremist ideology attracts people with mental illness because the ideology itself is indistinguishable from mental illness. Regardless, its an incredibly weird phenomenon and there are likely many more (alleged) nutcases out there like this; they just haven't been caught yet.
What is it about the far-left that makes them crave victimization so desperately?*** It's like they want the world to be worse and meaner than it actually is all so they can play victim for attention, sympathy, etc. "Victimhood as a status symbol," I suppose. Still looks indistinguishable from mental illness to me, though.
*There's also this notable story from earlier this year of BethAnn McLaughlin, a former neurology prof at Vanderbilt (before getting fired), who not only tried to (probably falsely) leverage MeToo for attention for herself, but went even further by pretending to be a bisexual, Native American anthropology professor as Arizona State.
**It should be noted that the only example that I'm aware of where a white dude has pretended to be black (and continues to kind of get away with it) is Shaun King, often referred to derisively as Talcum X.
***Also somewhat related, but I would be remiss if I didn't mention the large number of hate crime hoaxes that have been perpetrated by people who are presumably on the left: quillette.com/2019/02/22/hate-crime-hoaxes-are-more-common-than-you-think/
I'm sure most of you recall Rachel Dolezal, former Spokane, WA chapter president of the NAACP, who was outed as a white woman pretending to be black.
Then, last month, there was Jessica Krug, a "black studies" professor who was outed as a white woman pretending to be black.
About a week or two later (also last month), there was CV Vitolo, a University of Washington-Madison graduate student who was outed as a white woman pretending to be black. She was outed in an anonymous article on Medium: medium.com/@polite_keppel_dinosaur_57/cv-vitolo-haddad-another-academic-racial-fraud-c5c41fe32110
And now we have Kelly Kean Sharpe, yet another "black studies" professor who was outed (also via an anonymous Medium article) as a white woman pretending to be hispanic (at least it wasn't black this time, I guess):
I have watched the unmasking of CV Vitolo and Jessica Krug from afar. But when an old friend pointed me to the twitter bio of Dr. Kelly Kean Sharp, currently an Assistant Professor at Furman University, I now had a similar example on the edges of my own circles. I had distantly known Kelly while she was a PhD student at University of California, Davis, and was more than surprised to find out that she was now describing herself as Chicana.
This discovery led to multiple conversations and a flurry of research on the part of people who had known Kelly at UC Davis. They approached me to help publicize her fabrication and strategic use of a Chicana identity. Though it remains unknown exactly when she took on this persona and how much she has used it professionally, many who previously knew her are quite confused. She had only ever identified as a non-Hispanic white woman as far as they knew. Allegedly, when some colleagues asked about her newfound identity she claimed that her paternal grandmother had been from Mexico. Okay, fine, we know that identity can be quite fluid and many of us did not want to embark on a project of gatekeeping that would not allow Kelly to celebrate her grandmother. Perhaps this grandmother had just never been a topic that she felt comfortable bringing up in the numerous conversations she had with friends and colleagues about her family and upbringing.
But when some of us looked into genealogical records, we found that Kelly had no grandparents who were born outside of the United States or had Hispanic names. This is much more in line with how Kelly identified at UC Davis. The maternal grandmother who she claimed was from Mexico, was born in LA to white parents and was residing in the US during all the census records of her upbringing. This grandmother was the daughter of a wealthy, white lawyer from Iowa. A servant was even employed and living at the home according to census records. After that question was settled, we wanted to know to what extent she had claimed Chicana heritage since leaving UC Davis. This research has only brought new questions:
She described herself as a #Chicana Asst Prof in her Twitter bio. This was later changed to #Chicana at the end of the intro. Then, it was ultimately removed after a faculty member from the UC Davis History Department allegedly spoke with her due to numerous complaints from former graduate students. She has now made her twitter channel private.
This discovery led to multiple conversations and a flurry of research on the part of people who had known Kelly at UC Davis. They approached me to help publicize her fabrication and strategic use of a Chicana identity. Though it remains unknown exactly when she took on this persona and how much she has used it professionally, many who previously knew her are quite confused. She had only ever identified as a non-Hispanic white woman as far as they knew. Allegedly, when some colleagues asked about her newfound identity she claimed that her paternal grandmother had been from Mexico. Okay, fine, we know that identity can be quite fluid and many of us did not want to embark on a project of gatekeeping that would not allow Kelly to celebrate her grandmother. Perhaps this grandmother had just never been a topic that she felt comfortable bringing up in the numerous conversations she had with friends and colleagues about her family and upbringing.
But when some of us looked into genealogical records, we found that Kelly had no grandparents who were born outside of the United States or had Hispanic names. This is much more in line with how Kelly identified at UC Davis. The maternal grandmother who she claimed was from Mexico, was born in LA to white parents and was residing in the US during all the census records of her upbringing. This grandmother was the daughter of a wealthy, white lawyer from Iowa. A servant was even employed and living at the home according to census records. After that question was settled, we wanted to know to what extent she had claimed Chicana heritage since leaving UC Davis. This research has only brought new questions:
She described herself as a #Chicana Asst Prof in her Twitter bio. This was later changed to #Chicana at the end of the intro. Then, it was ultimately removed after a faculty member from the UC Davis History Department allegedly spoke with her due to numerous complaints from former graduate students. She has now made her twitter channel private.
This is a curious phenomenon* that seems to be exclusive to the far-left and almost exclusively to females who are also in the woke humanities (basically, anything with the word "studies" in the title of the degree program and/or department). I've yet to see this in males** or people in the STEM fields or business schools, or conservatives (perhaps those stories are out there, but I'm not aware of any).
I don't know if the extremist ideology of the far-left creates within these people thoughts and behaviors that are indistinguishable from mental illness, or if the extremist ideology attracts people with mental illness because the ideology itself is indistinguishable from mental illness. Regardless, its an incredibly weird phenomenon and there are likely many more (alleged) nutcases out there like this; they just haven't been caught yet.
What is it about the far-left that makes them crave victimization so desperately?*** It's like they want the world to be worse and meaner than it actually is all so they can play victim for attention, sympathy, etc. "Victimhood as a status symbol," I suppose. Still looks indistinguishable from mental illness to me, though.
*There's also this notable story from earlier this year of BethAnn McLaughlin, a former neurology prof at Vanderbilt (before getting fired), who not only tried to (probably falsely) leverage MeToo for attention for herself, but went even further by pretending to be a bisexual, Native American anthropology professor as Arizona State.
**It should be noted that the only example that I'm aware of where a white dude has pretended to be black (and continues to kind of get away with it) is Shaun King, often referred to derisively as Talcum X.
***Also somewhat related, but I would be remiss if I didn't mention the large number of hate crime hoaxes that have been perpetrated by people who are presumably on the left: quillette.com/2019/02/22/hate-crime-hoaxes-are-more-common-than-you-think/
