re: #153 SanFranciscoZionist

I have to confess, I am fascinated by people who take on ‘oppressed’ personas to gain power in academia or publishing. There’s something so utterly bizarre about the behavior, and yet it makes a weird kind of sense.

There’s a woman who wrote a ‘memoir’ about her childhood as a white and Native American foster child in a black home in South Central LA. Claimed to be a drug dealer and a Crip, made it out and went to college…totally untrue. She’s a white girl from Sherman Oaks. Got outed when her sister saw an interview with her in the NY Times.

Apparently when she was in college, she fed information about her earlier childhood ‘on the reservation’ to a professor who used it in his work— after the whole thing was debunked, he wrote a piece insisting that it was ‘truish’, if not actually true in any way.

Ghah. I wish I was more surprised that Churchill made it so far with his charade, but I went to college in the early 90s, and basically, there’s too much room for an aggressive faker who can do the lingo.

there is a whole cadre of losers out there who will make up anything to get ahead.
lie abt. the very essence of everything in their lives. and position themselves in a victim class but as a person of strength who can fight on the behalf of those aggrieved, strictly to gain personal power.
money, status, standing.
invitations to hollywood parties, tenure, academic kudos for no reason.
the problem is , intelligentsia is so corrupt no one rats each other out.
it is very much like politics.
many of these people are after personal gain or fame.
they use higher learning or service to their country to acquire it.
not too many yrs. ago these charlatans would have been called on their shite.
rode out of town on a rail.