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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:
stairway · 07/09/2020 16:44

Grannyspecsandslippers do you think someone has the right to identify as the race they feel they belong to even if they have no known relatives of that race?

Distressedchic · 07/09/2020 19:18

Anti trans lobby 😂
So what exactly is the difference between a White person identifying as Black, and a man identifying as a woman?
I’m not sure what mental gymnastics the woke have to do which makes one choice stunning and brave, and the other terrible awful.
This is what identity politics wants, anyone can identify as what they say they are. Welcome to the world you wanted.

StealthPolarBear · 07/09/2020 20:26

I'm going to make the assumption there is no sensible answer. Which t be honest I already knew.
When will the madness end?

NotBadConsidering · 07/09/2020 21:29

Isn’t it funny how people can come on a thread and call people names then when asked to justify it, repeatedly ignore requests to do so then claim victimhood? What’s the term for that again?

Sexnotgender · 07/09/2020 21:36

@NotBadConsidering

Isn’t it funny how people can come on a thread and call people names then when asked to justify it, repeatedly ignore requests to do so then claim victimhood? What’s the term for that again?
DARVO?
NotBadConsidering · 07/09/2020 22:20

Indeed. Like how people send messages like “suck my girl dick” to JK Rowling, then claim to be victims of oppression.

medium.com/@rebeccarc/j-k-rowling-and-the-trans-activists-a-story-in-screenshots-78e01dca68d

But we’re expected to just accept the identity of these people, no questions asked, while Krug is a pariah. Go figure.

Ablackrussian · 10/09/2020 08:02

If a man wants to identify as a woman: fine. But he should be known as a trans-woman, not woman, and such forms should have this option. If I wanted to identify as a man, the same should apply to me.

It is a very valid argument that there should be a clear distinction between what someone's sex is at birth to what they may change it to later on. That way, we are all given the correct identity and are able to distinguish the origins of our sex.

The same way: if someone wanted to change their ethnicity, because they felt that they belonged to that ethnicity. Let them crack on with it, on the proviso that their ethnicity, at birth, isn't forgotten/ hidden. It's all about being transparent, no matter how much opposition you may face.

There would be (and has been) considerable backlash to similar scenarios, regarding ethnicity but that may be because this particular lady, by deception, was not honestly identifying her origins, regardless of what she identified as. I'm not sure what ethnic transition would be called, or whether it would be taken seriously.

We are all entitled to our own, unique identification; how we see ourselves. But it is a choice to change ethnicity/ sex. It is also a choice to see yourself as a different sex/ethnicity than that of what you were born into. That's not to say that choice isn't a result of truly feeling like you are in the wrong body. But there should always be a clear indication of who that person once was. That's accountability and responsibility.

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