{"id":7087,"date":"2015-06-14T13:32:48","date_gmt":"2015-06-14T13:32:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2015\/06\/14\/rachel-dolezal-the-black-white-woman\/"},"modified":"2015-06-14T13:32:48","modified_gmt":"2015-06-14T13:32:48","slug":"rachel-dolezal-the-black-white-woman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2015\/06\/14\/rachel-dolezal-the-black-white-woman\/","title":{"rendered":"Rachel Dolezal, the Black White Woman"},"content":{"rendered":"

Malcolm Pollack offers<\/a> some astute analysis:<\/span><\/p>\n

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Centuries ago Voltaire said that \u201cto learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.\u201d I now offer you Pollack\u2019s Principle of Privilege:<\/span><\/p>\n

To learn where privilege lies, simply see how people choose to identify themselves<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Once upon a time, people of mixed race did everything they could to \u201cpass\u201d as white. No longer. The mulatto Barack Obama ostentatiously identifies himself as black, while pallid Elizabeth Warren listed herself in the legal and academic community as a \u201cNative American\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n

Another sign of this inversion of privilege is that membership in groups considering themselves \u2018oppressed\u2019 is as tightly restricted as an exclusive country-club, and for the same reasons. No sooner had the news about Ms. Dolezal came out than she was denounced as a scurrilous pretender to victimhood. But people only defend what has value<\/em>. In a right-side-up world, no sane person would ever bother fighting to keep others from seeking low status \u2014 but they will do whatever it takes to wall off their privileges against unqualified pretenders.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

J. Christian Adams ends his piece<\/a> on the Dolezal caper as follows:<\/span><\/p>\n

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Race is the fuel that runs the modern progressive agenda.  It\u2019s 24-7 race.  Race is the weapon for the great transformation, for plunking<\/a> Section 8 housing in wealthy residential areas, for undermining law enforcement and for transforming election laws.<\/span><\/p>\n

It\u2019s time that Americans start shaming those who would divide us.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Unfortunately, the race baiters who would divide us are shameless and thus impervious to shaming.  Nixon could be shamed. But Hillary Milhous Clinton?<\/span><\/p>\n

Is Dolezal perhaps a trans-racial<\/em> mulatto?  White in reality, black in her mind?  Or white in the actual world, but black in some merely possible world?  Another example might be George Zimmerman: Hispanic in reality, white in the febrile, race-obsessed, politically correct imagination of the NYT.<\/span><\/p>\n

And let's not forget the case of Elizabeth 'Fauxcahontas' Warren<\/a>, Cherokee maiden, diversity queen of the Harvard Lore<\/span> Law School, and author of the cookbook Pow Wow Chow.<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

\"Dolezal\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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Malcolm Pollack offers some astute analysis: Centuries ago Voltaire said that \u201cto learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.\u201d I now offer you Pollack\u2019s Principle of Privilege: To learn where privilege lies, simply see how people choose to identify themselves. Once upon a time, people of mixed … Continue reading “Rachel Dolezal, the Black White Woman”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[163,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-leftism-and-political-correctness","category-race"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7087\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}