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    Professorin der University of Winnipeg wird beschuldigt, sich fälschlicherweise als Métis ausgegeben zu haben

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    1. BigBongss on

      All power to her, she is justified in her actions here. ALL jobs, benefits, programs, and services that select on the basis of race are inherently bigoted and oppressive. Until such time as they are abolished, exploiting them will always be a moral action.

    2. PumpkinMyPumpkin on

      I mean she’s clearly has no Métis ancestors, so yeah, no bueno. 😂

      Though I also think measuring being Métis by having a single ancestor that is Métis a bit cumbersome. Technically under this definition a huge chunk of Canadians would suddenly be Métis.

      What a messy subject.

    3. notpoleonbonaparte on

      I said I’m gay because my university gives out an automatic $1500 scholarship to LGBT students. What are they gonna do? Ask me to prove it?

      Edit: Even if they did, for $1500 per semester over 4 years… $12,000? Are you telling me you wouldn’t for 12k?

    4. GhostlyParsley on

      This is such an interesting phenomenon that we’re hearing about more and more lately. Got me thinking, so I did a deep dive on Google, and it’s apparent that this has become a major issue in academia.

      Gina Adams at Emily Carr, Mary Turpel at UBC, Carrie Bourassa at UofS, and those are just the recent discoveries.

      There’s also an ever growing list of academics south of the border: Of course we all remember Rachel Dozel, who made headlines for pretending to be Black while teaching African American studies at Eastern Washington U. There’s also Andrea Smith at the University of California, Beth Anne McLauchlan at Arizona State, Jessica Krug, Kelly Kean Sharp, CV Vitolo-Hadid, the list goes on and on.

      And it’s not just academics. Celebrities like Buffy St. Marie and Sacheen Littlefeather are recent high profile examples.

      Listen, it’s truly not my intention to imply something passive aggressively, hopefully I’m not kicking a hornet’s nest here but I have to ask… aside from race (white) have you noticed another biological trait all these individuals have in common?

      They’re all women. Like, I’m 100% sure that there are examples of men who have pretended to be a different race for professional reasons, but it just seems odd that women seem to be WAY over represented when it comes to this stuff. Why is that? Perhaps it’s just easier for women to pull off a look that’s racially ambiguous?

      I did read about one man who faked being a woman of color, but he did so using an online persona, not in-person, on the job. I haven’t been able to find an example of a white dude who’s been living publicly as a different race. That’s weird, right?

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