Mick Hartley

Jessica Krug is the academic who resigned after admitting that she'd lied about being black and was in fact a "white Jewish" woman from Kansas City, to general shock and horror.

Meghan Murphy's take – Jessica Krug is the natural result of identity politics:

I can’t help but be amused by the anger and condemnation expressed by the very woke, aghast that someone would take on an identity not their own in order to acquire status and leverage in a world that judges one’s words and actions based not on their value, but on their proclaimed identity. Today, a man who claims to be a woman is said to suffer infinitely more than an actual woman, on account of “cis privilege.” A white woman, of all people, how dare she, must sit down and shut up, as she is too high on the privilege ladder, as defined by the woke. If she is middle class, she may as well drop dead.

I am further amused when it comes to the obvious questions around why it is appalling for a white person to adopt the identity of a person of colour, but not for a male to insist he is female because he prefers a dress to pants or because he enjoys the sense of power he feels waltzing into the women’s change room, knowing that if any woman dare protest, he is completely within his rights to accuse her of a hate crime.

The very same people who believe women like Krug and Dolezal should be tarred and feathered, who complain that to identify as something you objectively are not constitutes “gaslighting” and “violence,” will, with a straight face, insist there is such a thing as a “female penis” and that “men menstruate too.” Not only that, but these very same people would not hesitate to cancel a friend or colleague who dare ask what the difference is between a white person who claims to be black and a man who claims to be female.

There are of course differences, as Murphy goes on to note. Sex is straightforward: you're either born male or you're born female. Race is far more complex. You'd think, then, that a case of claiming to be a different race than you actually are might be more deserving of sympathy than claiming to be a different sex. But, well. … it clearly ain't so.