Amy admirably holds the word "identify" in "ironic" quotation marks.

The woke fondness for that word, and for presuming that everyone should and does have a correct response to it, shows a complete disregard for history. To have been "identified" as a Jew in central Europe just decades ago was not a playful inquiry about preferences.

About the item itself—

> that's just my culture, that's
> my home country, that's exactly
> how I look

— wouldn't it be great if some government person or some senior person in Korean culture said "No thanks, we're good… We'll call you if we need you on our bench and mail you a jersey. But don't wait up."

Amy: I'm guessing this will be cheered.

Guess again. This is not going over well at all.

Unfortunately, by the leftist standards, this should be perfectly all right.

And it's worse than just identifying as Korean. As the first quoted paragraph from the Lee Brown article in the New York Post suggests, he's not only identifying as Korean, but it looks like he might be attempting to identify as a particular Korean.

I'm waiting for the day someone decides to identify as Brad Pitt, even without the cosmetic surgeries to look like Brad Pitt, and then start insisting that they're entitled to all his residuals from his projects, insisting that he's the real Brad Pitt.

After all, transwomen are women and should be competing in women's sports. And don't you dare suggest that transwomen are not biological women. They will refer to brain scans, etc. Never mind that the biological differences between men and women start in the womb. There is a reason that male babies tend to be larger at birth.

Fortunately for me, I never said transwomen are women. On April 29 (I still have the text on my phone), I was texted,

Hi Patrick, this is Michael w/Equality Florida, your statewide LBGTQ advocacy org.

Okay, they're off to a bad start. That's a comma splice and a missing comma.

Last night, the FL legislature passed a terrible bill that band trans kids from playing in school sports. Child advocates and women's sports leaders are among the overwhelming opposition to this harmful legislation.

This will make it to Governor DeSantis' desk any day now. We need you to call the Governor and URGE him to VETO the bill!

"Governor," by itself, is not a proper noun and should not by capitalized.

Sample Script: "Hello, my name is _____, I live in [city], and I am urging Governor DeSantis to Let Kids Play and VETO SB 1028. Thank you!"

A double comma splice.

Governor Ron DeSantis - (850) 717-9337

We need all hands on deck for this, so let me know once you've made the call.

I replied,

Sorry, but I believe that the transgendered should form their own leagues. Transwomen competing against biological women is grossly and obviously unfair.

They said,

Understood. Thank you very much - have a great day.

I wasn't originally planning on transcribing the entire text of that message, but I thought some might be curious about it.

At least they didn't go crazy on you Patrick.

Looking forward to his invasion of North Korea to free his people.

In wokism you are your labels. Tick off three or four and the Progs have all they need to know. It's really simple minded. Like children studying a box of crayons but not knowing that art exists.
For the rest of us, once we figure out you're not antifa or a commie, we watch how you treat people and what your ideas are. It's a higher order of thinking.
Wokies are like a McDonalds in our culture - processed and standardized, lowest common denominator, and not healthy. Oli London is what you get on a steady diet of wokism.
The people calling for social justice don't have the social skills to pull it off.

I occasionally get similar slanted texts/e-mails. The problem, I've never advocated for Democrat policies/ donated to a Democrat, I have for Libertarians and Republicans, and 2 A, removing CRT issues. But I get similar slanted Far left talking points, just click button to auto send to representatives that you agree with slanted view. I also occasionally get a right leaning 2A one. Turns out I get far more right ones but most were getting filtered out by spam, only the right ones were being filtered out.
I suspect, how I got on the lefts contact roles, is years ago a friend used an "unbiased" advocacy website to try to get a University Pres kicked out, not really a right left thing or if it was I went with the conservative position.

Patrick, I’m more intrigued by the bill that “band” kids. Was Professor Harold Hill in town?

Not Eddie Murphy but this is close enough:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alicia_Garza

After that she lived with her mother and her Jewish stepfather, and she grew up as Alicia Schwartz in a mixed-raced and mixed-religion household. Garza identifies as Jewish.

No, they only cheer for trans gender, not trans racial.

Aww, Conan. I wish I had said that! They probably wouldn’t have gotten the reference, though. Oh, wait. It’s an LGBTQ+ organization.

“Seventy-six trombones led the the big parade!”

Waiting for the Koreans to send out hit teams to eliminate the imposters. Got to protect the franchise!