Non Binary professor accused of faking identities

[Justme56]

Following a recent thread, this is an interesting article showing how some self identities (eg NB) arent questioned whilst others are.

https://www.thepublica.com/non-binary-oregon-state-university-professor-steps-down-after-being-accused-of-faking-mixed-race-black-indigenous-two-spirit-identity/

A previous one where disability comes up to.

https://www.advocate.com/exclusives/2019/8/28/two-spirit-queer-disabled-scholar-making-waves

Biden bigs up the Irish part of his ancestry to enhance his appeal to the Irish American voter. I’m not so sure people vote that way anymore, though. Some of a large voting group is enough, I suppose.

8% of Americans claim Scottish heritage, 9.5% claim Irish heritage. (Obviously there will be some people in both groups). Massive market / voter base.

You're right, he's extremely funny:

"Driskill says.... "Our stories are necessary to both Indigenous and non-Indigenous communities if we are to change our current realities.""

Into total fantasy, one presumes.

I think you just file this under "Americans are weird about race".

Mr Monkey was born in England to Irish parents, has a very Irish name and has Irish and British citizenship.

On a visit to Boston earlier this year he got a bit weirded out by all the Americans who wanted to talk to him about their Irishness (trans: great granny who was born in Cork). They in turn seemed very disappointed by what they saw as his lack of Irishness (he has a generic London accent and has limited interest in traditional Irish cultural stuff)

@CervixSampler
”Crip & Mad” is more slur reclamation - by the physically disabled/chronically ill & people with MH problems. Of course, as with “queer”, it’s almost exclusively being done by people with no experience of being targeted with said slur; & frequently people who would not now attract ableist/saneist comments.

Hahaha what a tit.

He's the modern version of the Little Britain "Only Gay in the Village" - except he's the only two-spirit, queer, non-binary, disabled, indigenous, mixed-race person in the village.

Gwen Benaway, Canadian man who says he's a woman, also claimed indigenous heritage and benefitted from that identity.

https://quillette.com/2020/06/27/the-mob-that-came-after-me-is-turning-on-itself-when-will-this-end-who-does-this-help/

Got called out eventually.

https://x.com/GB20209/status/1272608805034000385

I couldn't find 'Gwen' on the net; it seems he's changed his name again.

https://wgsi.utoronto.ca/person/gwendolywn-fay-benaway/

I'm sorry for the writer of the Quilette article, Hal Niedzviecki. Seems he's been through the 'woke' wringer. Perhaps being burned once that's why he doesn't point out the blind spot of the people who police appropriation, who decide who can write about what. That they completely fail to see, they'll cheer on in fact, a man appropriating womanhood. Or maybe Hal's okay with that too.

I’m Irish and when I’ve visited America I end up in conversations like that with Americans and I find them uncomfortable a lot of the time because the Americans involved have a really stereotypical and outdated view of Ireland. Even worse, I’ve met some Americans who big up their Irish ancestry for oppression points - this was more common during The Troubles - and as someone who was living through The Troubles at that time, I was incredibly irritated by those people.

Some people like claiming things about themselves that give them an advantage, or make them feel special, and the modern fascination with Identity Politics has given this type of person the opportunity for social clout and advantage, which has sometimes diluted the help intended for the groups of people that policies were genuinely written to help.

Some people like claiming things about themselves that give them an advantage, or make them feel special, and the modern fascination with Identity Politics has given this type of person the opportunity for social clout and advantage, which has sometimes diluted the help intended for the groups of people that policies were genuinely written to help.

99% of the time the way to prevent this is not to tie help to identities. Tie it to needing help. Radical I know but it works.

My father's family came from Leinster and he was abandoned by his mother in London. She later married his father - I know this because my DNA picked up relatives of the same surname as the man she married, I carry their DNA though I can find no brothers or sisters as yet. I am interested in my family history and my brothers and I took great pains to trace our grandmother, who was the daughter of a dairyman in Dublin - last time I went to Ireland to visit my DH's relatives we went to see the house where she was born and lived. We traced our ancestry into the eighteenth century in Ireland and were and are very interested in our Irish ancestry. We also traced the ancestry of the man she married, who does indeed turn out to be our grandfather.

I am interested in Irish history - I always have been - but that doesn't mean I think I am Irish. I am not, I am English - though I am, apparently, eligible for an Irish passport and have an Irish maiden name (which had some disadvantages in 60s and 70s UK). I was most pleased when my SDD handed me a glass with a raven on it and said see 'saw' that this bird was connected to me. Since I also have the sight (perhaps from Irish ancestry?) I was not confounded but confirmed the connection. It is the totem of my family name and I am proud of it.