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- Jan 19, 2020
Looks like she's claiming to be 1/2 Cherokee at that. (Which is real interesting because she also claims to be the only kid in the family that inherited any Cherokee traits. Seems... unlikely, if her mother is suddenly full-blooded Cherokee.)
Now, I might be misremembering, but I swear that when this whole thing first came up (months and months ago) she claimed she was 1/16 (and might have also claimed to be 1/16 of a second tribe, as well). She also claimed that she had no connection to her heritage, was too lazy to make 'one phone call' that would confirm the information, didn't even know what tribe it was at the time, and even said she didn't want to use it as an identifier because she was so far removed from it. But she still wanted you to know it was there. Just so you're aware. Not that it matters. But you should know. Just saying.
She's brought it up anyway. And brings it up now almost exclusively in context of (1) answering questions about it and (2) throwing it onto her label as a smokescreen against criticism. She's been evolving her protests: used to be people hated her because she was too honest and cut through the bullshit, then people hate her being being a trans-woman, now people are also racist because they hate her for being 'native' even though nobody on the goddamn planet would know that unless she brought it up.
And I'm pretty sure she only brought it up because now I've seen criticism being dismissed as, "People are saying these things about a Native transwoman lesbian!"
I mean, first of all, it is intensely disrespectful to claim you're part of a tribe without being recognized by that tribe in the first place. You can identify you're Native ancestry as, like, a cool fact about your family tree, but it's incredibly ignorant to say that it somehow makes you whatever tribe or nation you claim to be. It's one thing for Lily to claim she has Native blood or ancestry, and quite another to proclaim she is Native.
Reminds me of this old MadTV skit where a man (also extremely white) took offense to every minor slight against him because he was an octoroon and everybody was just racist.
Second, it's glaringly apparent that she's just doing it for clout. She wants to wield her labels like a cudgel (as many people in her spheres do) in order to make other people shut up because they don't want to appear racist for the crime of disagreeing with another human being. If Lily were just... say... a privileged white man ranting on YouTube*, she'd have to actually defend her points, but once you've suddenly made it about race, gender, and sexuality you can throw up all kids of shields to pretend it's just because people hate you because of what you are, not who. Even though, without making a big deal out of it, nobody would know what Lily is, just who.
And her 'who' ain't attractive no matter how many labels she scrounged up.
Now, I might be misremembering, but I swear that when this whole thing first came up (months and months ago) she claimed she was 1/16 (and might have also claimed to be 1/16 of a second tribe, as well). She also claimed that she had no connection to her heritage, was too lazy to make 'one phone call' that would confirm the information, didn't even know what tribe it was at the time, and even said she didn't want to use it as an identifier because she was so far removed from it. But she still wanted you to know it was there. Just so you're aware. Not that it matters. But you should know. Just saying.
She's brought it up anyway. And brings it up now almost exclusively in context of (1) answering questions about it and (2) throwing it onto her label as a smokescreen against criticism. She's been evolving her protests: used to be people hated her because she was too honest and cut through the bullshit, then people hate her being being a trans-woman, now people are also racist because they hate her for being 'native' even though nobody on the goddamn planet would know that unless she brought it up.
And I'm pretty sure she only brought it up because now I've seen criticism being dismissed as, "People are saying these things about a Native transwoman lesbian!"
I mean, first of all, it is intensely disrespectful to claim you're part of a tribe without being recognized by that tribe in the first place. You can identify you're Native ancestry as, like, a cool fact about your family tree, but it's incredibly ignorant to say that it somehow makes you whatever tribe or nation you claim to be. It's one thing for Lily to claim she has Native blood or ancestry, and quite another to proclaim she is Native.
Reminds me of this old MadTV skit where a man (also extremely white) took offense to every minor slight against him because he was an octoroon and everybody was just racist.
Second, it's glaringly apparent that she's just doing it for clout. She wants to wield her labels like a cudgel (as many people in her spheres do) in order to make other people shut up because they don't want to appear racist for the crime of disagreeing with another human being. If Lily were just... say... a privileged white man ranting on YouTube*, she'd have to actually defend her points, but once you've suddenly made it about race, gender, and sexuality you can throw up all kids of shields to pretend it's just because people hate you because of what you are, not who. Even though, without making a big deal out of it, nobody would know what Lily is, just who.
And her 'who' ain't attractive no matter how many labels she scrounged up.
* Not that anybody could possibly mistake Lily for being a privileged white man indulging in a fetish and claiming it makes them multiple layers of 'protected class'. That's absurd.
