The truly smart identify as Pacific Islander. Checks off a rare diversity bow and hasn't been made political.

Mental health issues likely explain why I assumed a false identity initially, as a youth, and why I continued and developed it for so long; the mental health professionals from whom I have been so belatedly seeking help assure me that this is a common response to some of the severe trauma that marked my early childhood and teen years.

I'd say her adoption of an African-American identity is less rooted in mental health issues and more rooted in opportunity. Like Elizabeth Warren, she saw the writing on the wall and created a minority identity for herself.

It was easier to get a doctorate in African-American studies and, subsequently, a professorship in that subject than to get one in a more rigorous subject. And being black was a better way to enter the field than being a white Jewish woman from Kansas.

Krug is 38 and got her PhD in 2012. At that time, schools and companies were vigorously pursuing minority faculty and professionals. This was a career move - like Elizabeth Warren, Krug saw a career advantage in being a minority and ran with it.

Several news article on Krug have suggested that her colleagues were about to out her. I'd guess, having seen Liz Warren crash and burn on the family history rationalization and Rachel Dolezal crash and burn on saying she self-identified as black, Krug adopted the mea culpa and mental illness as her cover to get in front of the story. In the current environment, that probably won't save her any more than Warren's or Dolezal's stories saved them.

I don't see how anyone thought she was in any way of black African descent. Unless she was attending a school for the blind?

How long before you have to submit a DNA sample?

And for her, claiming Pacific Islander status would have been better.

By the way, that blurry selfie with the down blouse in the Twitter story is the picture on her faculty page at GWU.

C'mon, Jessica, get one of the photography students at the university to take a professional-looking headshot - at least one in focus.

> the picture on her faculty page

No better evidence of the provincial, naive mentality of contemporary academe than the faculty page. The photograph shows a teenager who wants to be rock star when she grows up, but the dean of her department apparently thought it made her authentically urban.

I can't learn anything new about this woman's life without the word FRAUD howling from my heart.

Does anyone remember the teacher who was encourage mobs to torment student journalists at Mizzou a couple years ago? Her scholarship wouldn't have challenged a twelve-year old.

These people are DIM.

Academe's problem isn't diversity, it's candlepower.

Sorry, here's the faculty page.

As Conan notes, consider teenage camera filter FX, and the selfie-titty angle. HER DEAN COULDN'T IMAGINE DEMANDING SOMETHING MORE APPROPRIATE FOR A SCHOLAR. No one told her to get her shit together.

Sailer made a brilliant point last week: "That which goes unsaid eventually becomes unthinkable."

From the people who brought us Headless Body in a Topless Bar.

This is where focusing on "race" leads. Why not just see people as people-- if you have a problem with what they *do*, that's a legitimate issue.

blurry selfie with the down blouse

That's a chubby person's selfie. Stretches the neck so you don't see more than one chin.

I don't see that she's done any "violence" (e.g., "very epitome of violence, of thievery and appropriation") but it's kind of pitifully sad that she's so ashamed of her own heritage that she has to play "dress up" with someone else's. Probably a minor psych/mental disorder of sorts. Because at her age, it shouldn't be just lack of maturity.

I found that I have a Colonial era negro ancestor.
Can I claim to be Black and eligible for the full range of Black Privileges?

As a chubby person I concur.

Hey, I also have a Colonial era negro ancestor! One drop rule!

One of the absurdities here is that someone with only a fraction of black blood is taken to be black, on the theory that they have been equally oppressed as someone of full african heritage. But why can't they identify as white when they are 80% white?

The heritability of culture is a lie. I cannot reclaim my fraction of Scottish culture by wearing a kilt, it is gone. I am not responsible for the crimes of my German genes (never mind those genes came over here in the 1800s). American blacks are culturally american, not african, as they will find if they go visit africa.

One of the best ways to learn to get along with and appreciate other cultures and races is to mingle, socialize, be neighbors. This has been happening a lot but the Woke want to unmix the colors, unmix the culture, establish strict tribal boundaries and even resegregate colleges.

...but the Woke want to unmix the colors, unmix the culture, establish strict tribal boundaries and even resegregate colleges. ~ cc at September 4, 2020 12:26 PM

That's because if you keep them separate, they have a "them," they have a reason to be afraid, a reason to resent. And that resentment is at the heart of collectivist systems - resent the rich, resent the different, resent the "them." Defend the "we."

Any government that can play off the different groups against each other can maintain power. Watch dictators in third-world countries manipulate tribal rivalries and alliances.

That's a chubby person's selfie. Stretches the neck so you don't see more than one chin. ~ I R A Darth Aggie at September 4, 2020 9:51 AM

A professional photographer can hide flaws without an unprofessional down blouse shot or an Instagram-teen-filtered shot.

As an avid hobbyist, I've read many an article on photographing people to hide things that make them reluctant to be in pictures. Since I don't do portraits, as a rule, I haven't memorized any of them - but, to Darth's point, angle is key, both the angle of the head and the angle from which the shot is taken.

> I also have a Colonial
> era negro ancestor!

We could always TELL, Nicole....

(We totally couldn't tell)

(Nor could we care)

> Stretches the neck

Dood, the angle is for her RACK... We don't need to make this complicated. Like I said before, she's confused mundane academe credentialism with rap star glamour photography… And the Dean of her department doesn't care.

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Turns out, he's not a dean, but a Department Chair.

You might wonder how his ethnic heritage plays into the kind of weekend he's having.

She’s got the worst fake accent.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n40wEIFtImU

Yes… AND THEY BOUGHT IT

"Intention never matters more than impact."

I can think of at least three socio-political movements that would collapse if people actually believed that.

Imagine this woman handling a scholarly difference of opinion in her field in this style. Imagine.

I’m sorry for your loss Amy. Lost my mother last July.

Kugel is literally "pudding" or "dumpling" in German.

So there is also potato kugel (which is equally yummy.and calorific)

Re: the downblouse shot. Women also like selfies because it makes their butt smaller by perspective.

I do not liked baked raisins