I’ve been known to misunderstand and I apologize for having done so.

I hope for you and yours as well. Additionally, Peace.

“and maybe have no right to pose them”
Preemptive attempt by me to avoid getting into any long running arguments.

“Try arguing with fundamentalist Christians about the Israeli/Palestinian conflict.”
Advice that SW might find some amount of distraction by getting into a long running argument.

I’m not certain who is telling you that the profession of Christian faith should be eradicated. I believe that contemporary popular Christianity is heretical and is in need of restoration but if you’re OK with calling yourself Christian that’s no more or less bothersome than any other faith (with the exception of anime culture; that shit is an abominable scourge that needs to be eradicated from Earth).

“Admitting of course I can only state, ‘I suppose’ whatever.”
I don’t know what this means but I totally agree with it. Is this your way of trying not to get into any long running arguments? I’m definitely for that.

I hope that you and yours are healthy and prosperous and that my barely-considered comments have not caused you any distress.

Sincerely,
Romeo

“I – don’t have the answer to any of these questions (some of which aren’t even exactly questions) and maybe have no right to pose them.”

[“I have no right to pose them.”]

If not, why not?

– Some number of posts back you posed (paraphrasing) “Try arguing with fundamentalist Christians [something having to do with] the Palestinians.”

I’m for damn certain not fundamentalist in any way but I am a Presbyterian of the Christian faith and I make not bones about it however; Who is anyone to question whatever about any person’s individual whatever?

On Sister Wolf’s sidebar you’ll (Romeo) notice a blog formerly named “Waka Waka Waka”? That blog’s host is much the same to me as my ‘Same-Friend’s’ Sister Wolf’s blog. That blog’s author, through the years, having changed his perspective. I suppose much the same way as Joy Reid and many of our Pols one could say “I’ve evolved.”

Admitting of course I can only state, “I suppose” whatever.

http://malcolmpollack.com/2016/03/04/live-and-learn/

What I cannot get a good grip on is as a variant of , as Sister Wolf questions above “Well, yeah, if I can tell you I’m really a man inside my female body, why can’t I also tell you that I’m black?” is why [how] it is one group’s identity must be by legislation enshrined in statute while the other (professing Christianity) ought be eradicated “for the betterment of society”?

Delusional seems too naive a word to describe her, but it’s hard to truly find the malice I want to see behind her agenda because ultimately she appears too simple. Perhaps she really doesn’t understand why what she says and does is so offensive to the very people she claims to identify with; but then I have to ask myself how is the only one who doesn’t get it? That’s where it’s really hard to understand her at all, because her ignorance seems willful in the face of mounting evidence that continues to show how what she’s doing is wrong.

When she is being interviewed by a professor @ the University of Cincinnati (I think??), there is a woman in the audience who says that while she can appreciate Rachel’s love of black culture, she cannot claim blackness because has not had to face the struggle of being a black female in America. Rachel questions what exactly the woman means when she says she hasn’t had to endure the initiation process of being an African American woman, and the audience member goes on to say, “Discrimination in stores, discrimination in schools, discrimination among black people and how they feel about one [skin] color versus another, job discrimination, racial profiling. That is my experience.” Rachel’s response? “I understand, but I have an entire life’s story that has led up to this point.” She never really answers the question being asked and that’s infuriating.

Here’s where it gets worse…later in the film she laments the fact that since she’s been outed as a culture vulture/racial performer, she can’t take part in the rallies for equality that Trump’s presidency has ignited without a ton of unwanted, negative attention. So, cooped up in her house with a little baby, she decides she’s going to attend a rally anyway, and she’s quoted as saying “If I’m able to just incognito support and participate, that’s at least something.” In this scene she also looks more “white” than she has tried to pass for in the past.

And here for me is the crux of her being problematic – she claims that she is black but suffers none of the lasting impact of what that means in our society. When she wants to be “incognito” she can switch on her whiteness to suit her purpose (to fly under the radar). This is the problem people have with her claims…skin color can never be turned off or made to be incognito when it’s dark, only when it’s light. Her inherent privilege allows her to claim the suffering of a historically underrepresented group, of which she has had no part of except at her own doing, while at the same time benefiting from a prototypical caucasian appearance when she feels like it.

I have so much more to say, but I just can’t. This woman is so offensively interesting, but I hope her children manage to get away from her as soon as they can, and stop being hurt by her narcissistic need for attention.

“I will be shocked if any black viewers decide to cut her any slack.”

https://theglowup.theroot.com/tribeca-film-festival-2018-there-s-no-redemption-song-1825521791

You might be surprised (shocked?) after having gotten into the comments on the link.

“Part of me wants to think, Well, yeah, if I can tell you I’m really a man inside my female body, why can’t I also tell you that I’m black? If it’s simply a case of I am what I feel I am, why is gender okay but not ethnicity? What is so sacred about ethnicity?”

I have similarly found myself confused/conflicted given “all the fuss” our society seems to be drowning in in recent years. Sometimes I think having one of those Crying Rooms some number of the universities are installing might be just the ticket.