Althouse: How many comments do I need to read on this WaPo article about the professor who pretended to be black before the subject becomes Trump?

September 5, 2020

How many comments do I need to read on this WaPo article about the professor who pretended to be black before the subject becomes Trump?

I'm reading "GWU plans to replace Jessica Krug, the professor who admitted to falsely claiming Black identity," and I've got the comments section sorted in order of up votes.

I bet the first comment makes it about Trump. What do you think? Want to do a bet with me? Well, if you had, I would have won, because the most up-voted comment is: "Weird. Be who you are people. If you're a failed businessman, grifter and reality-show host, don't try to be president. For example."

I remember when people said Trump was insane because he thought everything is about him, but these days, it's the anti-Trumpists who think everything is about him.

82 comments:

Achilles said...: Elizabeth Warren.; 9/5/20, 10:42 AM
Achilles said...: Just saying.; 9/5/20, 10:42 AM
tim maguire said...: In their defence, the anti-Trumpists ARE insane.; 9/5/20, 10:47 AM
Quaestor said...: Is claiming to be black without the requisite genetic heritage morally distinct from claiming to be a woman without the requisite biological appurtenances?; 9/5/20, 10:49 AM
Martin said...: Althouse's last point is excellent...+100.; 9/5/20, 10:55 AM
Ken B said...: Come out as Jewish, lose your job?

There is actually a serious issue here. Did she commit ACADEMIC fraud? If not, and it seems not, then GWU is basically saying they hired her only for her claimed race aren’t they?; 9/5/20, 11:03 AM
Fernandinande said...: I painfully expanded the 646 comments and "Trump" was mentioned 13 times.; 9/5/20, 11:03 AM
Ken B said...: Come out as Jewish, lose your job?

There is actually a serious issue here. Did she commit ACADEMIC fraud? If not, and it seems not, then GWU is basically saying they hired her only for her claimed race aren’t they?; 9/5/20, 11:03 AM
Big Mike said...: If “grifter” is disqualifying how did the Dumbocrats wind up with Biden for their candidate?; 9/5/20, 11:08 AM
LilyBart said...: If everything reminds you about how awful Trump is - you're definitely a bore, and you could probably could use some counseling.

The level of Trump hatred from the left is off the charts, and doesn't seem justified. People have allowed themselves to become deranged. Its the kind of hatred that destroys people - like taking poison.; 9/5/20, 11:09 AM
Sebastian said...: "these days, it's the anti-Trumpists who think everything is about him"

These days, it's progs who engage in projection in everything they say.; 9/5/20, 11:14 AM
AlbertAnonymous said...: No fair sorting by most upvotes first. Of course THAT’S going to get a Trump comment right at the top. It’s Wapo.

A better bet would be to read the comments in order received. Then at least you might get to the “Tootsie POP Three” before finding a TDS post.

Strange times...; 9/5/20, 11:18 AM
DKWalser said...: Krug has been falsely claiming to be black for decades. Somehow, even though her fraud started before Trump was elected, it's still his fault.; 9/5/20, 11:19 AM
Mark said...: How many comments do I need to read on this WaPo article about the professor who pretended to be black before the subject becomes Trump?

Less than the number of licks it takes to get to the center of a Tootsie Pop.; 9/5/20, 11:31 AM
Howard said...: Althouse serving up slow-pitch softballs to her slow-twitch "clients".; 9/5/20, 11:31 AM
Wince said...: So, now the "I identify as ___ " thing is dead?; 9/5/20, 11:31 AM
Hari said...: This is the customer. The Washington Post is the product.; 9/5/20, 11:32 AM
R C Belaire said...: I guess it's true what some say : Trump lives inside their heads, rent-free, 24/7. One would think it would become awfully tiring after 3+ years...; 9/5/20, 11:39 AM
Bruce Gee said...: Ironically, this is how people get elected and re-elected. Keep the subject about them, no matter what the topic. I used to be told in marketing that there is no bad advertising. When you have some, raise your prices.; 9/5/20, 11:47 AM
Hammond X. Gritzkofe said...: "GWU plans to replace Jessica Krug, the professor who admitted to falsely claiming Black identity,"

Replacing her with someone claiming to be an illegal immigrant from Guatemala?

Elizabeth Warren planning to retire from Senate?; 9/5/20, 11:54 AM
Kevin said...: I remember when people said Trump was insane because he thought everything is about him, but these days, it's the anti-Trumpists who think everything is about him.

Think what happens to the next Republican President if their lunacy is validated by Trump’s defeat.

“We were right the last time,” will be the constant refrain.; 9/5/20, 11:54 AM
Jupiter said...: Wait, what? They are going to "replace" Jessica Krug? I haad not heard that she had resigned. Is he being fired? What for? For being white? Is that legal?; 9/5/20, 11:56 AM
whitney said...: 3! That is crazy! Even though I don't know if it's really the third since it was a response to the second comment. But it was the first response; 9/5/20, 11:57 AM
madAsHell said...: You can falsely claim Black Identity?

Elizabeth Warren please pick up the white courtesy phone.; 9/5/20, 11:59 AM
DEEBEE said...: : "Weird. Be who you are people. If you're a failed businessman, grifter and reality-show host, don't try to be president. For example."
Weird I too must have succumbed to politicitis— Hiden is indeed a failed business man — Burmisa.. Hiden is a grifter _- Burisma. Hiden just became a reality-show host with his “press conference” with MSM groupies. They are fired.; 9/5/20, 12:07 PM
Joe Smith said...: But men can pretend to be women and women can pretend to be men?

In fact, there are governing bodies in sports that are actively protecting the 'rights' of men and women who are pretending to be what they are not.

I call it mental illness.

I thought liberals believed in Science!®

If she's a quota hire I think it's great that she's taking a job from a 'real' black person. Apparently white people are better at being black than actual black people are...

Elizabeth Warren was unavailable for comment.; 9/5/20, 12:11 PM
Jon Ericson said...: I forwarded this one.; 9/5/20, 12:37 PM
Nichevo said...: Are comments slow because you guys are not moderating as of 2 hours after the post, or because people are not posting due to the holiday?; 9/5/20, 12:39 PM
n.n said...: One, two, three... crunch. Three licks to get to the center of Tootsie Roll Tootsie Pop.; 9/5/20, 12:54 PM
Bob Smith said...: The most dangerous people on the planet. Dumb people who think they are smart.; 9/5/20, 12:59 PM
gspencer said...: These Dems, Biden, never try to persuade about how their policies will make lives better. I understand that making those arguments is a pretty foolish thing to do since no Democrat policy has ever proven to be good, but don't they at least have to try.

All they do is complain about Trump. On a certain level it's both flattering to Trump and pathetic to themselves.; 9/5/20, 1:05 PM
buwaya said...: I've been saying since 2015 that Trump is an effect, not a cause.

Its been a very hard sell.; 9/5/20, 1:19 PM
cubanbob said...: "Weird. Be who you are people. If you're a failed businessman, grifter and reality-show host, don't try to be president. For example."

Hardly a disqualification for a Democrat. Both Clintons, grifters. Obama, grifter. Biden bin Hiding 47 year political failure and grifter.; 9/5/20, 1:48 PM
Lucien said...: How can I learn to fail in business as badly as Trump has?; 9/5/20, 1:57 PM
Ingachuck'stoothlessARM said...: Is 'Stealing Blackess' as Bad As Saying the N-Word? Warning: graphic; 9/5/20, 1:57 PM
Yancey Ward said...: Yeah, that is one bet I wouldn't dare take.; 9/5/20, 2:03 PM
Drago said...: Howard: "Althouse serving up slow-pitch softballs to her slow-twitch "clients"."

Michael Reinoehl sure is a "slow-twitch" these days.....; 9/5/20, 2:08 PM
Michael K said...: Howard said...
Althouse serving up slow-pitch softballs to her slow-twitch "clients".

In a minute, Howard will explain how that "failed businessman" had $9 billion thrown over the transom one day. Just one of those things you see with failed businessmen.; 9/5/20, 2:26 PM
Kirk Parker said...: gspencer,

"These Dems... never try to persuade about how their policies will make lives better.... don't they at least have to try?"

Are you kidding? When you're one of The Righteous™ an assertion is all you need.; 9/5/20, 2:35 PM
cubanbob said...: As for this professor, did she have to fake being black to get hired because she couldn't meet the standards for a white? Did GW have a different standard for whites and blacks? I would like to think that GW has only one standard and that this woman is mentally afflicted but otherwise competent?; 9/5/20, 2:42 PM
Rick.T. said...: “The most dangerous people on the planet. Dumb people who think they are smart.”

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Von Moltke posited it was the dumb AND energetic who were the most dangerous and should therefore be eliminated.; 9/5/20, 2:50 PM
ccscientist said...: If we evaluate on merit, then who cares about their race? If the university admitting they only hired her because she was black? And these days, it can be very hard to tell anyway with people from all over the world living here and inter-marrying.; 9/5/20, 3:06 PM
Quaestor said...: Althouse serving up slow-pitch softballs to her slow-twitch "clients".

Better a slow-twitch than a slow wit, eh, Howard? You most of all ought to know first hand the foibles and miseries of a spavined wit among the Althouse clients. (Why the quotes, Howie?) Slow-twitch brawn keeps the Thoroughbred steeplechaser in the race after the Quarter Horse sprinter is blown -- kinda like your doomed hero, the former Welsh coal miner and pedophile, the ex-veep.; 9/5/20, 3:15 PM
Quaestor said...: The most dangerous people on the planet. Dumb people who think they are smart.

Ah, come on, get a grip... Howard is harmless.

Mostly harmless.; 9/5/20, 3:17 PM
Phil 314 said...: You just figured that out, huh?; 9/5/20, 3:43 PM
5M - Eckstine said...: It's the progressive illness. They lack boundaries. Even about critical thought.; 9/5/20, 3:45 PM
Paco Wové said...: Here's a story about how 2 + 2 = 4 became a controversial statement in the Woke-O-sphere, with nary a word about Trump. The commenters still manage to drag him in by comment #5.; 9/5/20, 3:49 PM
Crimso said...: Assuming the US is the horribly racist hellhole people are insisting, where systemic racism is a national crisis and all blacks are terribly oppressed, why on Earth would someone choose to identify as black? It would be like falsely identifying as Jewish in Germany in 1944.; 9/5/20, 4:01 PM
Openidname said...: "Fernandinande said...

"I painfully expanded the 646 comments and 'Trump' was mentioned 13 times."

Yeah, but were there references to "this president" or to "45" or to an unidentified "narcissist"?

One of the symptoms of TDS is avoiding the use of his name. Speak of the devil, you know. And they will never, ever call him, "PRESIDENT Trump."; 9/5/20, 4:04 PM
wild chicken said...: "You can falsely claim Black Identity?"

It's called Stolen Valor! Lol; 9/5/20, 4:18 PM
Chris Lopes said...: "Is claiming to be black without the requisite genetic heritage morally distinct from claiming to be a woman without the requisite biological appurtenances?"

That would be my question. As someone who society would classify as a white male (my ancestors were actually latin, but you anglos can never tell us apart) in his 60's, I'm a lot closer (biologically speaking) to being a black man than I am to being a white woman. The woke have their own version of science.

9/5/20, 10:49 AM; 9/5/20, 4:29 PM
tcrosse said...: Althouse might wish to take a short vacation from the WaPo. The Telegraph has taken down its paywall for this weekend.; 9/5/20, 4:50 PM
Narayanan said...: WaPo article about the professor who pretended to be black
npr-interviews author-'In Defense Of Looting'
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to be fair and balanced they should do story with switch author and professor; 9/5/20, 5:02 PM
Iman said...: Melanin Appropriation. Liberalism is a mental disorder.; 9/5/20, 5:13 PM
Fernandinande said...: If not, and it seems not, then GWU is basically saying they hired her only for her claimed race aren’t they?

Nowadays racism is always part of the hiring process for high-status jobs, but more interesting is "They" are inadvertently admitting that race is biological and based on genes.

Consider: both she and Obama were raised in a white environment by white people.

Why is Obama "black" but she isn't?; 9/5/20, 5:14 PM
Pettifogger said...: Re how long it takes to mention Trump, we need a corollary to Godwin's Law.; 9/5/20, 5:44 PM
Michael K said...: buwaya said...
I've been saying since 2015 that Trump is an effect, not a cause.

I've been saying for five years that he was a brick thrown through the window of the ruling class.

And I have been very surprised at how well he has done in spite of hysteria.

In an interview with MSNBC’s Chris Hayes, Wilson conceded that “Trump is still a very powerful force right now” because he appeals to part of the of the conservative base that Wilson said was activated by his “nativist” message. Wilson insisted that the donor class “can’t just sit back on the sidelines and say, ‘oh well, don’t worry, this will all work itself out.’”
“They’re still going to have to go out and put a bullet in Donald Trump,” Wilson said. “And that’s a fact.”

That could still happen and is my chief worry now. I don't trust the Secret Service, especially since they have covered up the Biden molesting of an agent's wife.

I hope he has a couple of his own people in there.; 9/5/20, 5:49 PM
Darkisland said...: Ann has lived in Wisconsin for a long time. I think most people would agree that this makes her a Wisconsiner. Wisconsinite?

She is not a native Wisconsiner, though being born in NY IIRC.

If a person born in Wisconsin moves to Idaho, marries another Wisconsiner in Idaho, are their children Wisconsiners?

I've lived in Puerto Rico 50 years next April. I was not born here but I am a Puerto Rican citizen (The same way Ann is a Wisconsin citizen) So I call myself "Puerto Rican" Not by blood, perhaps but by residence, citizenship and adoption.

My wife is ethnic Puerto Rican as are my children and grandchildren.

So if I am Puerto Rican, can I legitimately claim to be Hispanic or even, if I want to be annoying, Latinx?

I a person is born in Oklahoma to a native Puerto Rican mother and father, they call themselves Puerto Rican. But are they? Seems to me they are really sooners.

It gets so complicated at times that .

I'm fine with this woman "passing" for black. We have never had a problem with blacks "passing" for white. Why is it a problem the other way?

And I agree, OF COURSE it is the bad orange man's fault. He made her do it.

John Henry; 9/5/20, 6:11 PM
wildswan said...: She was teaching African Studies so probably her claim helped her get a job which would other wise have gone to an African-American. But what surprises me is that she got away with it at all. You just listen to her and you know she faking a black accent. The speech rhythm is all wrong for any black area; she sounds like anonymous white which is midwestern white with a few words or thoughts from TV blacks pasted here and there.; 9/5/20, 6:34 PM
tim in vermont said...: "The speech rhythm is all wrong for any black area; she sounds like anonymous white which is midwestern white with a few words or thoughts from TV blacks pasted here and there.”

Does she say “Dy-no-mite!” anywhere, because that would be something.

I kind of miss that show, BTW.; 9/5/20, 7:15 PM
tim in vermont said...: "Althouse serving up slow-pitch softballs to her slow-twitch "clients”.”

That’s pretty funny coming from you, a guy who buys into every new conspiracy theory the Democrats throw out there heart and soul. At least she has actual evidence. She did an experiment, she had her hypothesis, tested it, and her hypothesis was confirmed right then and there. You can only imagine what it is like to have one of your theories confirmed by evidence on the sport.; 9/5/20, 7:19 PM
Fernandinande said...: So if I am Puerto Rican, can I legitimately claim to be Hispanic or even, if I want to be annoying, Latinx?

Probably.

It's irrelevant to this discussion of racial categories, though, because Hispanic and Latinks are not racial categories, they're political, like citizen of Wisconsin or Canada. Which is why I use the term "Mestizo" when I mean Mestizo.; 9/5/20, 7:27 PM
Yancey Ward said...: Navin Johnson, Professor of Bio-Engineering at Ole Miss and POC is next to be cancelled.; 9/5/20, 7:44 PM
Yancey Ward said...: "You can only imagine what it is like to have one of your theories confirmed by evidence on the sport."

You are being too hard on Howard, Tim- Howard once theorized that he wouldn't like the taste of dog shit, and he proved it.; 9/5/20, 7:46 PM
Bob Smith said...: They do this because the prof is one of them and she’s a con artist. They’re worried that we’ll make the connection.; 9/5/20, 8:03 PM
Paul said...: Isn't getting special privileges because one claims they are of a minority FRAUD?

Why wasn't she charged?; 9/5/20, 8:21 PM
Bay Area Guy said...: I would like to self-identify as a Lesbian Eskimo, if they will let me.; 9/5/20, 8:33 PM
Yancey Ward said...: I asked here a few days ago- would Woke World cancel a transgendered woman who took a position set aside for cisgendered-woman, like, say, Professor of Women Studies?

What are the rules here? If sex can be self-determined by an individula, why not race/ethnicity?; 9/5/20, 8:46 PM
n.n said...: Here's to Professor Krug for exposing one of the incongruities of the diversity racket.; 9/5/20, 9:03 PM
n.n said...: would other wise have gone to an African-American

She may have one drop of Black in her veins. According to the Evolutionists, she can trace her lineage to Africa, therefore she is African-American, albeit lopsided as are most "African-Americans", most of whom are greater than 1/2 American.; 9/5/20, 9:07 PM
Craig said...: It's TDS, and it's winning, and it's working. Democrat hate-filled one-party rule is the future of America.; 9/5/20, 9:12 PM
n.n said...: "Is claiming to be black without the requisite genetic heritage morally distinct from claiming to be a woman without the requisite biological appurtenances?"

Transgender/neos claim to be feminine (gender) or masculine, not female (sex) or male. To their credit, gender, including sexual attributes, not limited to sexual orientation, can be simulated and influenced through medical procedures and indoctrination.; 9/5/20, 9:15 PM
Quaestor said...: wildswan writes: She was teaching African Studies so probably her claim helped her get a job which would otherwise have gone to an African-American.

It's pretty goddamn racist to insist that a person with dark skin has a special insight into things involving Africa and its inhabitants simply because he may have ancestors from Africa. That makes even less sense than awarding a professorship of Ukrainian studies to Benjamin Franklin Voloshyn of Boulder, Colorado simply because his ancestors lived there. In fact, this hypothetical situation has better justification in that Mr. Voloshyn can consult immigration documents, ships' logs and passenger lists, and various government and church records extant in modern Ukraine to prove beyond reasonable doubt specific facts about those distant ancestors. Not so very likely in the case of a Black American trying to confirm his African heritage.

There was a time when an aspiring college professor needed years of peer-reviewed research in his field of study before any such appointment could even be considered. That's back when universities valued truth and distrusted lies, pretense, and masquerade.; 9/5/20, 9:22 PM
Anonymous said...: Yeah.

Sorry.

On the one hand, you want to thank Althouse for actually posting sane things. It's sad, but it honestly "takes courage" to point out that the NYT/CNN/WaPo world is garbage.

On the second hand.... you know she's pulling the lever for the Corpse of Joe Biden.

So, no, I'm just not very interested.; 9/5/20, 10:17 PM
gadfly said...: I remember when people said Trump was insane because he thought everything is about him, but these days, it's the anti-Trumpists who think everything is about him.

Narcissism doesn't work like a light switch (on or off) and there's no cure for narcissistic personality disorder. It really doesn't matter what we Never Trumpers know to be the truth about Trump, his entire life has been entrapped inside his own damaged perception of reality and he is incapable of discerning his severe mental limitations. According to Donald's niece Mary, a clinical psychologist:

President Donald Trump is a textbook narcissist and his late father, the real estate developer Fred Trump Sr., was a sociopath . . .

At the root of President Trump’s narcissism . . . is a childhood that was scarred by the emotional abuse Trump suffered at the hands of his father and by his mother’s absence due to a lengthy illness. Lying, cheating and hiding one’s true feelings were all rewarded in the Trump household . . . and as a result of this, these behaviors are all fundamental parts of President Trump’s personality. By limiting Donald’s access to his own feelings and rendering many of them unacceptable, Fred Trump Sr. perverted his son’s perception of the world and damaged his ability to live in it . . .

Elsewhere [Mary Trump] writes, “Nothing is ever enough. This is far beyond garden-variety narcissism; Donald is not simply weak, his ego is a fragile thing that must be bolstered every moment because he knows deep down that he is nothing of what he claims to be.”

“The fact is, Donald’s pathologies are so complex and his behaviors so often inexplicable that coming up with an accurate and comprehensive diagnosis would require a full battery of psychological and neuro-physical tests, that he’ll never sit for...”

Mary Trump also describes her uncle as having been sheltered from the real world and from the consequences of his own behavior. “Donald has been institutionalized for most of his adult life, so there is no way to know how he would thrive, or even survive, on his own in the real world.”; 9/5/20, 10:17 PM
AZblondie said...: Not long ago I went to MSNBC.com to see how they covered some fairly major event. Couldn't find that subject anywhere, but more than half of the stories mentioned Trump in the headline.; 9/6/20, 1:24 AM
Quaestor said...: n.n writes: Transgender/neos claim to be feminine (gender) or masculine, not female (sex) or male.

Nonsense. Too bad you're so far behind the curve, n.n; 9/6/20, 1:33 AM
Big Mike said...: The speech rhythm is all wrong for any black area; she sounds like anonymous white which is midwestern white with a few words or thoughts from TV blacks pasted here and there.

The giveaway of whiteness or blackness would have been how she pronounces “ask.”; 9/6/20, 4:30 AM
tim in vermont said...: Warren didn’t take that job at Harvard necessarily from an Indian. It is far more likely that she took it from a black person.; 9/6/20, 7:00 AM
MayBee said...: Quaestor said...
Is claiming to be black without the requisite genetic heritage morally distinct from claiming to be a woman without the requisite biological appurtenances?

I have the same question and I don't see an obvious answer.; 9/6/20, 7:38 AM
Michael K said...: gadfly is one of those poor souls you see with a sandwich board in the poor part of town with the message "World ends tomorrow ! Repent !"; 9/6/20, 9:33 AM
Sam L. said...: Zero; zip; NADA.; 9/6/20, 2:31 PM