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In reply to the discussion: Rachel Dolezal Changes Her Name To Nkechi Amare Diallo [View all]Hortensis
(58,785 posts)33. Well, if she said she was biologically male
and renamed herself Roger, would we feel she had a right?
I am not saying everyone should support this...very individualistic person's right to claim to be black just because she feels black inside, but might a knee-jerk rejection to this at least be useful in helping people empathize with the emotional reactions of hard-core conservatives to sex changes?
Frankly, I have no particular problem with this person living her life as a black person, but then I'm comfortable with letting the already embattled 13% deal with it. Surely they can handle these relatively rare events. Maybe just consider them as one more vote each? As in...whatever.
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"she can't find a job and the only work she has been offered is in reality TV and porn."
snooper2
Mar 2017
#8
This isn't an attempt to garner more attention, it's an attempt to outrun it.
maxsolomon
Mar 2017
#12