Quote:If someone wants to live as though they are a member of a different race, that's ok by me. There are two key differences between Caitlyn Jenner and Rachel Dolezal for me:

 

1. Jenner hasn't spent the last 20 years running around in drag and advancing herself socially by telling people that she was a woman, complete with a fabricated life story. Dolezal has spent the last 20 years running around in blackface telling people that she is African-American, that her father was an elderly black man, that her adopted brother was her son, all that crap.

 

2. Jenner hasn't fabricated hate crimes against herself. Dolezal, on several occasions, has (almost certainly, let's be honest) placed hate speech and/or threats in her own mailbox and reported them as hate crimes to "build rep" within the black community.

 

To me, that's the key difference. Jenner's "dishonesty" about who she really was for all this time was as much to protect her family as it was anything else. Dolezal's dishonesty was designed to advance her career and social status, and she willfully lied to lots of people to get to where she is.