Re: then again, maybe... Archived Message Posted by Raskolnikov on February 20, 2023, 11:32 am, in reply to "then again, maybe..." Interesting that she can't identify as South Asian, Woman of Colour, Arabic when they are so keen on people being able to claim whatever identites they like usually. It feels like these are concrete definitions but then so do male and female. There is a history of white people posing as persons of color or claiming ethnic backgrounds they do not have. In 2015, a national controversy erupted following the revelation that Rachel Dolezal, a white woman, had for years posed as Black before becoming president of an NAACP chapter in Spokane, Washington. Others have claimed roots they don’t have; more recently, Rep. George Santos, R-N.Y., falsely claimed Jewish descent, among a host of other lies. Lol. Some history. Rachel Dolezal and...George Santos? but then, as you said, maybe.... The concerns about Saraswati include what some AFSC members and supporters regard as a possible hidden political agenda. In an anonymous letter posted on Medium that The Intercept has confirmed is from AFSC members, they noted that after 9/11 she appeared in conservative and Islamophobic spaces, including right-wing TV shows, where she was presented as a “moderate” Muslim critical of Islamic extremism. While a change in political views is not unheard of, Saraswati has not publicly addressed her work from those years, and much of it appears to have been scrubbed from the internet. In the Medium letter posted last week, the group of AFSC members and supporters detailed what they allege to be Saraswati’s history of misrepresenting her identity as well as some of her connections to conservative groups earlier in her career. So maybe she was a plant who, if she ever gets rumbled (as she seems to have been here), they can "blow her up" for faking all these identites and cause trouble for the organisation even as she is being exposed. “DEI is becoming a multibillion-dollar industry: corporations, companies, nonprofits,” the AFSC leader told The Intercept. “The data shows a tiny percentage of the directors are Black. And now you have white people in brown face getting into DEI positions, with its salary, resources, and power.” Well that's probably a source of some trouble; grifters gonna flock after the dollars. Message Thread: Won't someone please think of the conductors? - Raskolnikov February 20, 2023, 9:41 am and Diversity Leaders - Der February 20, 2023, 10:00 am then again, maybe... - Der February 20, 2023, 10:20 am Re: then again, maybe... - Raskolnikov February 20, 2023, 11:32 am But 'feck' the working class - Chris Rogers February 20, 2023, 10:26 am Re: But 'feck' the working class - Ken Waldron February 20, 2023, 2:32 pm Indeed, look at the PLP - Chris Rogers February 20, 2023, 4:27 pm Re: Indeed, look at the PLP - Ken Waldron February 20, 2023, 4:38 pm Sorry Keith, going blind in me old age - Chris Rogers February 20, 2023, 5:08 pm I'm bloody losing it Ken! - Chris Rogers February 20, 2023, 5:21 pm Re: I'm bloody losing it Ken! - Ken Waldron February 20, 2023, 5:38 pm Beyond my keith .. - Shyaku February 21, 2023, 2:00 am Oh ah ken... nm - Ken Waldron February 21, 2023, 2:12 am   Searching