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'Pretendian' Berkeley Professor Caught Faking Native Ancestry

Posted on 5/5/23 at 11:47 am
Posted by BoudinChicot
Member since Sep 2021
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Posted on 5/5/23 at 11:47 am
Seems like there's one of these monthly now of white women LARPing Pocahontas to advance their academic careers. If there's so much white privilege going around it sure is ironic these people faking oppressed minority status: Daily Mail

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sociology professor Elizabeth Hoover confirmed she is not actually a member of the Mohawk and Mi'kmaq tribes as she had been told growing up in upstate New York, affirming: 'I am a white person.'

She said she never knowingly falsified her identity or tried to deceive anyone, writing on her personal website: 'I'm a human. I didn't set out to hurt or exploit.'
But now she is facing calls from more than 300 students and professors to resign from her position at the school.
They are accusing Hoover of being a 'pretendian,' or a white person who falsely claims to have Indigenous ancestry in order to profit.



The best part of these are the self flagellation apology letters Apology Letter

ETA kind of not guilty though...



This post was edited on 5/5/23 at 12:00 pm
Posted by JumpingTheShark
America
Member since Nov 2012
22906 posts
Posted on 5/5/23 at 11:48 am to
Pretendian is an amazing term I have not heard until today
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Posted by RogerTheShrubber
Juneau, AK
Member since Jan 2009
260681 posts
Posted on 5/5/23 at 11:48 am to
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sociology professor Elizabeth Hoover


Sociology professor, female, faking ethnic heritage...


Nothing new here.
Posted by El Segundo Guy
SE OK
Member since Aug 2014
9607 posts
Posted on 5/5/23 at 11:49 am to
They make a simple way to determine if someone has Native ancestry.

It's called a fricking CDIB card. If they don't have one, it's stolen ancestry.
Posted by NPComb
Member since Jan 2019
27370 posts
Posted on 5/5/23 at 11:50 am to
Posted by Gifman
by the mountains
Member since Jan 2021
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Posted on 5/5/23 at 11:51 am to
More believable than pretending you're the opposite sex.
Posted by carhartt
Member since Feb 2013
7721 posts
Posted on 5/5/23 at 11:51 am to
If a dude can pretend to be a woman then I see no issue with one race pretending to be another.
Posted by el Gaucho
He/They
Member since Dec 2010
53018 posts
Posted on 5/5/23 at 11:51 am to
I’m offended that they use the i word in “pretendian”


As an indigenous person myself (1/32) I demand to be made whole
Posted by LSU alum wannabe
Katy, TX
Member since Jan 2004
27004 posts
Posted on 5/5/23 at 11:53 am to
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LARPing Pocahontas



I chortled.
Posted by Frank Black
the dawn of the new millenium
Member since Mar 2004
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Posted on 5/5/23 at 11:54 am to
Posted by Logician
Grinning Colonizer
Member since Jul 2013
4513 posts
Posted on 5/5/23 at 11:54 am to
if white privilege is real, why do white people pretend to not be white to get a leg up?
Posted by tiger1616
Member since May 2020
529 posts
Posted on 5/5/23 at 11:54 am to
Holy shite, Pretindian is the best one of these I’ve ever seen. Talcum X is a close second now.
Posted by slacker130
Your mom
Member since Jul 2010
8014 posts
Posted on 5/5/23 at 11:54 am to
So gender is fluid and ethnicity isn't. This is tough to keep up. How long until ethnicity is fluid too?
Posted by JetsetNuggs
Member since Jun 2014
13931 posts
Posted on 5/5/23 at 11:55 am to
Leftist white woman is a major hypocrite, a tale as old as time
Posted by EZE Tiger Fan
Member since Jul 2004
50319 posts
Posted on 5/5/23 at 11:55 am to
Wonder how these same people feel about Elizabeth Warren?
Posted by Weekend Warrior79
Member since Aug 2014
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Posted on 5/5/23 at 11:57 am to
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not actually a member of the Mohawk and Mi'kmaq tribes as she had been told

Funny that you can just claim minority status and say, it's what I've been told; yet for your business to get Veteran owned status you have to fill out forms and get certified.
This post was edited on 5/5/23 at 11:58 am
Posted by Weekend Warrior79
Member since Aug 2014
16416 posts
Posted on 5/5/23 at 11:59 am to
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As an indigenous person myself (1/32) I demand to be made whole

Have you tried just rounding up to get the other 31/32?
Posted by mdomingue
Lafayette, LA
Member since Nov 2010
30324 posts
Posted on 5/5/23 at 12:06 pm to
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It's called a fricking CDIB card. If they don't have one, it's stolen ancestry.

So you need to jump through US Government hoops to have Native American ancestry?

How about a simple DNA test? A lot of people have family histories that are oral traditions. My family on my mom's side had such. O% in my DNA though. A small amount in my mom's. Because we were talking about one person multiple generations ago. In modern times, no point in claiming anything like this unless you get a DNA test to verify it, IMO.
Posted by OldmanBeasley
Charlotte
Member since Jun 2014
9698 posts
Posted on 5/5/23 at 12:10 pm to
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How about a simple DNA test?

DNA test don’t work for everyone. Oldmanbeasley’s came back inconclusive. Although the Beasley’s have always been an ambiguous people.
Posted by Zendog
Santa Barbara
Member since Feb 2019
4488 posts
Posted on 5/5/23 at 12:11 pm to


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