Last year saw a handful of ethnic fakes exposed. People pretending to descend from an approved progressive victim class who turn out to be white women. And it’s always white women.
The University of Wisconsin’s Kay LeClaire, Dartmouth’s Susan Taffe Reed, Arab-Latina Queer Feminist activist Raquel Evita Saraswati, and who can forget Rachel Dolezal (white, black, and American Indian) or Lizard Warren.
On its surface, it seems insignificant, like a friend or acquaintance who pads their social resume with tales that seem to stretch the truth. They might be true, but you’re not sure, and it’s not as if it matters. But these white women (its always liberal white women) donned a false identity and then stole something as a result—a job, promotion, position, recognition, influence – from a person who was of legitimate ethnic or racial descent, something that is painfully important to the diversity crowd.
Though not nearly as important as their politics.
The latest made famous for ethnic fraud alumni is Heather Rae, whose job as a high-profile Hollywood producer is to lie for a living. Making stuff up is how she makes a living, to which we can add pretendian.
Award-winning Heather Rae, 56, serves on the Academy of Motion Pictures’ Indigenous Alliance, previously headed up the Sundance Institute’s Native American program and claims “my mother was Indian and my father was a cowboy.” Multiple prior news reports have also cited her as having a Cherokee mother.
But a watchdog group called the Tribal Alliance Against Frauds is now demanding the Academy and the producer drop her “false claims” while activists insist she’s at best 1/2048th Cherokee.
The group accuses her of profiting from usurping “real American Indian voices and perspectives” and being a fraudulent so-called “Pretendian.”
That’s not very much. In fact, Rae is less likely to have any native descent than Lizard Warren, who was eventually forced to apologize for pretending all these years. We’ve no clue what Heater Rae will do but the NY Post Reports that her connection to this sort of fraud has deep roots.
Rae was already caught up in the highest-profile “Pretendian” scandal to hit Hollywood. The producer was thanked by the Academy last year for brokering an apology to Sacheen Littlefeather.
Littlefeather was blacklisted in Hollywood for appearing on Marlon Brando’s behalf to decline his 1973 Best Actor Oscar and jeered as she spoke up for Native Americans, claiming she was Apache.
But after her death in October, Littlefeather’s sister revealed she was a liar, who had faked her identity all along.
Is it safe to say that these are not the only liberals in entertainment who lie for a living that are lying to make a better living? And what, we must also ask, are the progressive gate-keepers prepared to do about it?
Nothing would be my guess. They have no problem standing behind their fake president. How could they possibly care if another liberal white chick masquerades as ethnic at the expense of actual people of color? At least until it becomes a public relations problem, at which point they will pretend to give a damn.
Note: There is a list of at least 195 alleged pretensions floating around the internet, but I did not locate an accessible copy before publication.
HT | PJ Media
