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Jesica Krug - white Jewish Woman pretended to be black.

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SentientAndCognisant · 04/09/2020 08:30

Ms Krug, a Jewish woman form Kansa purported to be a Black woman and was a Professor of AfricanAmerica Hostory at George Washington University . Teaching classes and supervision grad and undergrad students in African American History

She was also an activist who posted and participated in rallies and events as Jessica La Bombalera. Demonstrating against the gentrification of East Harlem, proclaiming it to be her neighbourhood

Essentially she has gaslight,lied and assumed an identity that is not hers. In doing so,other candidates were denied opportunities,remuneration. She has assumed an identity and heritage that was not hers to assume

Exposed by a student who had the courage to confide in other teaching staff

OP posts:
OldQueen1969 · 05/09/2020 11:16

Christ on a bike, is the madness ever going to end?

In my naive and childish Utopia, the most important thing is that all human beings are treated equally and with kindness and compassion, and appropriately dealt with when they harm other people - they get re-habilitated if possible or prevented from continuing to do harm.

Isn't it time to have a good hard look at the world we now live in and the direction it is going in and try to work out why so many people are feeling the need to try and alter not only their own painful realities to this sort of extent, but to force other people to collude in it to the point of generating yet more and more division and intolerance?

Telling people they can be anything they want to be if they just focus on manifesting it into reality seems to be part of the problem, as it's being taken to a level akin to utter delusion.

It all seems like such a mess, and when people try to even gently and respectfully suggest that something is going really wrong with society as a whole, the pack of wolves descend with cries of "not fair - you can't possibly understand my feelings and obviously you don't care about them or me!!!"

This particular case - well, read the apology - first impression - this woman has some deep seated issues that need to be addressed. Is she genuinely remorseful or looking for more attention? Who knows. You can't really get inside someone's head through a computer screen. The possibilities of constructing multiple virtual narratives are endless. Through the internet, they are being leaked into the real world.

What is truth? What is fiction?

Where ARE we going as a species, other than apparently disappearing up our own arses?

RufustheSniggeringReindeer · 05/09/2020 11:17

I agree with oldqueen

Alabamawhirly1 · 05/09/2020 11:19

This is her. Now I've seen the name I see she has been mentioned already up thread

Jesica Krug - white Jewish Woman pretended to be black.
SerenityNowwwww · 05/09/2020 11:21

When will it end... ?

I’ve just read about a uni (In the U.K.) who has banned drag acts in case it offends trans women - and yes, if it offends a group of people then absolutely, look into it. It didn’t say if any had actually complained. Plenty of woman have though and been ignored. And it’s still ok for tots in the library though.

But ban it, they have. So there we have it. 2020. They year I lost the plot.

SoManyActivities · 05/09/2020 11:23

@SerenityNowwwww

When will it end... ?

I’ve just read about a uni (In the U.K.) who has banned drag acts in case it offends trans women - and yes, if it offends a group of people then absolutely, look into it. It didn’t say if any had actually complained. Plenty of woman have though and been ignored. And it’s still ok for tots in the library though.

But ban it, they have. So there we have it. 2020. They year I lost the plot.

Oh my god, you are shitting me?! Which uni?
SerenityNowwwww · 05/09/2020 11:25

In the telegraph and times (I think)

Aberystwyth’s LGBT society said most societies who have drag socials “do so in a mockery of trans women and the trans femme experience”

How can they tell if they are mocking women or trans women? Since drag has been around since the year dot (as we are frequently reminded) has this always been the case and we didn’t know?

NotBadConsidering · 05/09/2020 11:26

I just did a google image search for Martina Big Shock.

And once again, someone explain to me how Martina Big cosmetically altering her skin to identify as black is any different to some well known males cosmetically pornifying modifying their bodies to identify as a woman?

Don’t worry about replying Grannyspecsandslippers, we know you’re ignoring requests to do so because it’s an impossible question to answer. There IS no difference, but to admit that means your false accusations of “transphobia” fall apart and most people who throw that accusation around are too proud to admit their own cognitive dissonance.

stairway · 05/09/2020 11:27

I’m sure there are many incidents in the past where men has pretended to be a woman in order to gain some advantage. They don’t need to bother now though as trans men are considered women anyway.

SoManyActivities · 05/09/2020 11:28

Just looked it up - Aberystwyth.

So women have been saying for ages that drag is offensive to women and have been called bigots, hateful blah blah blah.

Males complain its offensive and suddenly its banned?

So it's fine to ridicule women, but not fine to ridicule trans people?

Honestly, sometimes I just cannot deal with the misogyny.

stairway · 05/09/2020 11:28

I am a bit surprised by Corbyn though. I assumed he got terrible grades because he went to a state school!

Kit19 · 05/09/2020 11:29

Trans men are biological women

It’s trans women that are biological men

and writing that makes my head hurt!!

stairway · 05/09/2020 11:30

A non grammar state school.

SerenityNowwwww · 05/09/2020 11:31

I thought he went to grammar. Either way, he wasn’t exactly brought up on an estate in the arse end of Glasgow (like my dear old pa in the 30s, who excelled at school and ended up at Glasgow uni).

NotBadConsidering · 05/09/2020 11:34

Maybe Corbyn should just identify as an A Level student again, and get some new results allocated by the algorithm.

AnotherEmma · 05/09/2020 11:42

"So it's fine to ridicule women, but not fine to ridicule trans people?"

Quite.

cologne4711 · 05/09/2020 11:49

Trans men are biological women; It’s trans women that are biological men and writing that makes my head hurt

Oh dear Kit you do know that's hate speech do't you. You can get (and people (women) have got) sacked from a job for saying that, and have a police visit...

talk about Emperors' new clothes.

Kit19 · 05/09/2020 11:55

They’ll never take me alive 😆😆

RuffleCrow · 05/09/2020 12:06

I think the being Jewish thing is relevant because it can make being white more ambiguous depending on the particular ethnic mix of the Jewish person. I've met Jewish people who looked more anglo-saxon than me and others who looked almost asian.

oreshina · 05/09/2020 12:13

Perhaps she could identify with being part of a minority group with a voice as opposed to being part of a minority group that for reasons which I will never fully understand are much maligned. Where are Jewish rights? Jews have been persecuted since time immemorial. Why?? Maybe she felt she was living a life that felt more relatable to her and one in which she could be an activist for change. People do far worse each and every day yet the fact she is Jewish will make her a soft target for the bile and vitriol people seem to get away with directing at the jewish community.

NotBadConsidering · 05/09/2020 12:14

This sort of shit has serious consequences. Jamie Shupe campaigned to be the USA’s first legally recognised “non-binary” person and have an X recorded on his birth certificate and passport. Shupe was lauded by the Guardian for doing so.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/jun/16/i-am-first-official-genderless-person-united-states

Jamie Shupe later admitted it was all a lie.

www.dailysignal.com/2019/03/10/i-was-americas-first-non-binary-person-it-was-all-a-sham/

Some select quotes:

I should have been stopped, but out-of-control, transgender activism had made the nurse practitioner too scared to say no.

Becoming a woman had gotten me into The New York Times. Convincing a judge that my sex was nonbinary got my photos and story into publications around the world

Legal precedents set based on unchallenged self-identity. This is where this gets us.

Unsurprisingly the Guardian never published anything reporting Shupe’s mea culpa. Hmm

Grannyspecsandslippers · 05/09/2020 12:21

Ever heard of Martina Big but she does appear to have some issues...

SerenityNowwwww · 05/09/2020 12:24

Ah but she never hid her past (white) identity. Although she did say that she was going to give birth to a black child (her husband is white).

SoManyActivities · 05/09/2020 12:28

@Grannyspecsandslippers

Ever heard of Martina Big but she does appear to have some issues...
Are you going to answer any of the questions posed to you or not?
Sexnotgender · 05/09/2020 12:32

Of course they’re not going to answer any questions @SoManyActivities as they can’t.

They just throw around ridiculous claims of twansphobia and when pushed ignore the questions. It’s a sad life.

SheepandCow · 05/09/2020 12:39

The username grannyspecsandslippers.
I was just posting yesterday about how I've realised I identify as a pensioner. I'm looking forward to my pension and a nice quiet retirement village by the sea.

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