"She Fooled Everyone"

"The problem is that if you adopt the view of race held by Shakespeare, Du Bois, Appiah and the geneticists, there is no such thing as an authentic Black or Latinx person because there are no 'actual' racial categories: they are all socially determined performances.                      "But that is not how race is usually discussed these days among the woke. Instead, as the uproar over Krug's impersonation shows, race is now widely considered an intrinsic category, not a social construct, and there is no crossing the boundaries. If you try to cross or 'pass,' you risk being greeted with the same horror and derision that miscegenation generated not that long ago.                                                      "Paradoxically, we have returned to a view of race not dissimilar to white supremacists: both view race in absolute terms, and both believe the races should be separate."

Peter C. Herman at Inside Higher Ed explains why the exposure of Jessica Krug upsets current-day progressive views of race

And Cathy Young at The Week writes that "White identity politics on the right and 'woke' identity politics on the left feed off each other. A Trump victory would just perpetuate this vicious cycle."

At Persuasion, John McWhorter writes that Krug was "seeking a sense of validation and group membership in noble victimhood."