As all racists will tell you, someone can’t be a racist if they have that one friend that is a minority.
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Mitch McConnell is married to an American shipping heiress of East Asian descent since 1993. She’s also the head of Transportation and is used by Pence to claim dump isn’t racist🙄
1st Asian American on a presidential cabinet blah, blah, blah this bitch is every bit as vile (and traitorous! She tried to get her family in talks with China?! Really?!) as her terminally melting, Pale Man from Guillermo del Toro’s Pan’s Labyrinth cosplayer of a husband.
I’m not even a US citizen. I didn’t even know I still had it in me to care so much but…this family is so fucking evil it just transcends borders and nationalities.
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Sure, just like no husband or boyfriend has ever been a misogynist. It just makes sense!
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I’m at ASU and was pretty upset to hear one of my colleagues died. It took a few hours to realize there is actually an ASU faculty member who is Hopi, about in the field that the fake account claimed to be and very much alive. As much as I wonder how she feels about this BS I hope nobody is wasting their time with it.
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That only happens if she gets caught. I’m assuming she didn’t plan on getting caught.
No. Because I’m guessing that she pulled out some BS that conservatives imagine that actually oppressed people say, and then Fox news or whoever, and point to that as proof of how the whole “grievance culture” thing is really just anti-white, anti-man, anti-capitalist, etc, and we should root that out of American culture and put the deserving white man back on top where he belongs.
It works to undermine the cause of actually bringing to light systemic issues against a number of groups, no matter how you slice it…
Either people with privilege are doing the work of listening and amplifying the voice of people who suffer oppression, or they are part of the problem that keeps it in place. This woman is clearly not the former, because masquerading as an oppressed person isn’t amplifying anyone’s voice or listening, it’s merely being a lying asshole who doesn’t care about the very real struggles of your fellow man.
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Attention. The ability to live out her fantasies.
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I can’t speak for this person, but where I grew up in rural america, everyone claimed to be 1/4, or 1/8, or 1/128 Cherokee, and acted as if it made them part of the tribe. I think it is something some people really desperately want to associate themselves with.
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I used to encounter this a lot in Kansas, and the best case scenario I could figure out (for white appropriation) was to game the system for perks like free hunting and fishing licenses.
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I would have thought that it’s fairly obvious why she’s made the stupid decision to masquerade as this invented character. She was active in a social group where having a claim to a marginalised identity will increase your credibility and gain you a sympathetic hearing, regardless of the actual content of what you have to say. So there’s an obvious incentive to grift- take advantage of people’s generosity and biases in order to gain social validation, support and power within that social group.
It’s an instructive reminder that there’s always someone willing to take advantage for the smallest of reasons, and that people on the internet might not be who they say they are.
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While on the topic. Does BBS have a way of rooting out sock puppets?
I’ve got my suspicions about certain clusters of accounts being just a bit too supportive of each other’s posts.
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Not true. Her actions drowned out actual Native American voices, as well as LGBTQ voices, with what a white woman imagined they might be saying. Whatever her motivation (and I am not prepared to say it was evil, but certainly self-centered, privileged and tone deaf, at best) it served to falsely put forward a voice claiming to be something it was not. I, as a SWM of all the privileges, value viewpoints different than my own. If I found that one of those viewpoints was not what it claimed, I would be pissed. She should be ashamed.
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Agreed. It definitely causes harm whether or not caught, and I didn’t actually address that. It’s something that she should have seen, and I should have as well.
But the question I thought Mindysan33 was answering was intent, rather than result.
What I am saying is that such harm was likely neither intended nor even salient in her decision making. People wanting to oppress other people usually seek stronger forms than just dilution and eventual drowning out of their voices (though of course any opportunities will be grabbed).
She was undoubtedly selfish in her motivations, but trying to satisfy some other goals (attention, shielding from criticism, donations, etc) still seem far more likely as motivations to me.
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Somewhat on topic; technically this query would be ‘meta.’
Basically you need to contact the mods with links to your suspicions.
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Unless you can read her mind, you can’t know her intent. We can more effectively speculate on the result, though.
It doesn’t matter.
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To employ an analogy stretched to the breaking point, a drunk driver pretty much never intends to kill someone, but that does not help the victims.
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clutches pearls but what about their HEART… 
But seriously, this is why we have such a hard time rooting this kind of destructive shit out, because we don’t want to either see it as systemic, which we fear might indict us, and we worry to much about holding people accountable for their actions, fearing we’re dehumanizing them by doing so… but no, it’s not dehumanizing to hold people to account, it’s entirely human to do so. Whatever her INTENT here, her actions were not only hurtful, but dangerous to the other very REAL human beings whose struggles are being co-opted and delegitimized by what she’s done here. 
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What’s really dehumanizing is when people of privilege care more about the offending parties in question than they do about the victims of those parties. Or when they care about dogs than they do other actual people. Or when they care more about property… Or…
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Yep. I remember when my sister-in-law’s family members found out they and their kids were within the tribal generational limits and wanted to register so their kids could receive preferential college acceptance. They are VERY white presenting and they’ve all been raised in white, upper middle class privilege. Just disgusting.
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We do, but if you are smart and obfuscate the info we have about you (IP, email, etc) it is much more difficult. The community is actually really good at calling out these situations when they happen, and I encourage you to flag posts with “something else” and your suspicions (or PM a moderator directly) if you are suspicious.
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