Rachel Dolezal, "Trans-Black" who was former NAACP leader, now jobless, may soon be homeless

[Archangel125]

[QUOTE=killerteacup;51884250]In her Guardian interview it's pretty clear she's identifying as an ethnicity, but I'm not sure if she clarified that before now. To be fair to her, it's not like she would have made headlines had she done so, and it's not clear that she would have even been given a chance by the media at the time to do so as there was a lot of dogpiling going on

She could have been a lot more clear at the outset, true, but I guess the whole thing was a lot to deal with. I'd hate to be one of those people in her shoes that just gets dogpiled on social media in that way, it must be really damaging

I agree, but if what she did was commonplace, the idea of race would potentially become completely arbitrary or be relegated to that of a subculture eventually, which would be one way of doing it

Ultimately I don't think it's possible to just do away with these social constructs, they will always exist at some level, but removing any form of power relations from them would be a great thing[/QUOTE]

I agree with you here - I think like 90% of the issue in this case was her being attacked as a result of her initial choice of words.

[dark_vivec]

[QUOTE=killerteacup;51883303]
I don't think she deserves sympathy but I think the "idiot of the week" mentality ruins lives and they deserve to at least have that moment forgotten about. It's not about sympathy it's about whether or not a person deserves to be only able to do porn or reality TV because of a scandal. My answer is no. That's utterly dehumanising

Just to reiterate - other people being homeless in no way delegitimises the idea that it actually sort of sucks that his woman got out through the shit[/QUOTE]

I agree there. It's a disgusting element of society and the internet has exacerbated it, with shitholes like kiwifarms whose entire purpose is to antagonize people.

[QUOTE=RB33;51884072]Replace the words 'race' with 'sex' and see how it becomes very unacceptable. If transgender is okay, why isn't "transrace", it's the same kind of thing. Transgender people were also considered mentally sick, we have moved beyond that but it's still okay to call others mentally sick despite the similarities?[/QUOTE]

Because one has scientific and academic acceptance?

This is like the "If boys can be girls then why can't I be an apache helicopter?"

[RB33]

[QUOTE=dark_vivec;51885838]This is like the "If boys can be girls then why can't I be an apache helicopter?"[/QUOTE]
Non-Germanic people were considered less pure once, homosexuals mentally ill, transgender people as well. The topic keep changing, you're just doing the same as to the things before this. In future we will probably look back and say "why didn't we behave better against transracial people, don't they have the same right as everyone else?". So why wait and let's just let people do what they want. Do you lose anything by refusing them?