Masquerading as a White Bearded hipster guy (despite being a Black Woman)

[KitSileya]

16. You're referring to incidents prior to the picture change.

If you read the article, you will see that after she changed her picture, which was years after the Breitbart incident, "I had suddenly become reasonable and level-headed. My racial identity no longer clouded my ability to speak thoughtfully, and in good faith. It was like I was a new person. Once I went back to Black, it was back to business as usual."

As we can see here on DU often, members of minority groups aren't trusted when they speak of their experiences - only if their experiences are retold by members of the majority group (white, male, straight, cis) are the experiences accepted as real. Rape survivors are told they are lying and playing the victim game. Women talking about harassment are asked what kind of sick world they live in that they let that happen to them, if it indeed happens at all. Black people are told that the racism they experience isn't real - it's just individual bigots.

It's a classic silencing technique.... as is claiming that the people who harass/rape/are racists/misogynists are simply aberrations, outliers, 'so sorry you encountered one of those, but the majority are good people,' all the while ignoring that the racism/misogyny/bigotry is woven into the very fabric of our culture, as a feature, not a bug.