A Case Study of a Self-Hating Racist

[Marian the Librarian]

Fasten your seatbelts: she's moved on to Hispanics. No group is immune...

[super skeptic]

Fasten your seatbelts: she's moved on to Hispanics. No group is immune...

At least she likes Selena? I can't tell what her opinion is anymore. Is it evil? Is it not?

Same with cupcakes. Wait, they're bad if other women eat them because it means they're childish and fat, but the purse is pretty, but cupcakes are wrong, but you might buy the earrings? How is eating a cupcake childish but wearing them as earring is not?

[Anise]

Her criticism of Vera Wang doesn't even make sense.

What's so inappropriate about a photo of a woman with her HUSBAND? Married people are occasionally intimate, ya know, much as it may bug you.

I'm sure if Vera Wang was not cuddling her husband, Kidist would have remarked on how cold and arrogant she is.

Also, is it just me or is that photo of Vera Wang and her husband really cute?

[SheWoreLemon]

The next post I read she gave unique views on a Valentino fashion show in Paris...An "Eve" dress which had a snake on it provoked some hatred as well.

I would think she would be all over that "Eve" dress.

Obviously when Valentino was creating that dress he was thinking, "See? Even decadent fashion designers know that women shouldn't be trusted because of their gullibility! Lucky for me they're so gullible...I can put these ridiculously expensive dresses on the runway and the women can't wait to buy them! My "Eve" dress is soooo meta, and those foolish women are sooo stupid they'll never even get it! Muahahaha!!!!"

Then she'd say how this was yet one more reason to dress modestly.

[SheWoreLemon]

http://cameraluc.blogspot.com/2012/01/i ... f-god.html

Here's one. Liam Neeson hasn't been looking sad lately because he's been grieving over losing his wife Natasha in a tragic skiing accident in 2009, it's because he is devastated that the Canadian National Health Service let her die by not giving her good enough care. That led him to lose his Christian faith and now he's getting ready to convert to Islam. Yes, it's all because of Government health care!

[2xx1xy1JD]

http://cameraluc.blogspot.com/2012/01/in-absence-of-god.html

Here's one. Liam Neeson hasn't been looking sad lately because he's been grieving over losing his wife Natasha in a tragic skiing accident in 2009, it's because he is devastated that the Canadian National Health Service let her die by not giving her good enough care. That led him to lose his Christian faith and now he's getting ready to convert to Islam. Yes, it's all because of Government health care!

Tremblant is a big ski resort, but it's not a huge population center. It's an area of mountains and trees and lakes and chalets. You don't find large hospitals with a full range of specialists on call, which is capable of doing neurosurgery, in areas that don't have a large population. That's an issue of geography, not government health care. Canada has a larger physical area than the US with 1/10th of the population, so access to services outside of the major population centers is an issue, and would be an issue regardless of the health care system.

[fakepigtails73]

Tremblant is a big ski resort, but it's not a huge population center. It's an area of mountains and trees and lakes and chalets. You don't find large hospitals with a full range of specialists on call, which is capable of doing neurosurgery, in areas that don't have a large population. That's an issue of geography, not government health care. Canada has a larger physical area than the US with 1/10th of the population, so access to services outside of the major population centers is an issue, and would be an issue regardless of the health care system.

Exactly! The biggest hospital nearby is St-Jérôme at 45 minutes, and even then sometimes that hospital has to medevac people to better equiped hospitals in Montreal (which is at 1h30 from Tremblant) for trauma care.

And the resort staff asked Natasha after her accident if she wanted to go to a hospital, and she said no she'd lay down a bit...Sad to say.

And that weird Kidist woman, what is she doing living in Toronto, the most multicultural city in the world? What a weirdo. Love her story on how she thinks she's more caucasian than other Africans.

[super skeptic]

The newest article on Michelle Obama is bizarre. It starts off bashing Michelle Obama's sartorial choices, of course, but then it ends with a paragraph that seems to come out of nowhere on another designer and her "darker complexion as a child" and "Jewish mother."

I mean, what even is the purpose of speculating on that? The photograph she shows of the designer as a child shows a clearly white child and white mother. I really think she's pushing it with the 'darker complexion' comment, because I don't see it. And she dies her hair blonde...so what? A lot of people dye their hair blonde, even natural blondes, because even natural blonde hair tends to darken over time or be uneven.

So I guess that really tells you how much Kidist is obsessed with white skin.

[2xx1xy1JD]

Exactly! The biggest hospital nearby is St-Jérôme at 45 minutes, and even then sometimes that hospital has to medevac people to better equiped hospitals in Montreal (which is at 1h30 from Tremblant) for trauma care.

And the resort staff asked Natasha after her accident if she wanted to go to a hospital, and she said no she'd lay down a bit...Sad to say.

And that weird Kidist woman, what is she doing living in Toronto, the most multicultural city in the world? What a weirdo. Love her story on how she thinks she's more caucasian than other Africans.

The only criticism of Quebec healthcare that can stick at all is the lack of air ambulance.

Ontario's also got government-funded healthcare, and I can assure you that patients are transferred by helicopter all the time - I used to live across the street from a hospital with a helipad, and would get jolted awake all the time.

[super skeptic]

I love that she wrote a post about how much she likes St. Patrick's Day. If any other non-white group were celebrating ANYTHING, let alone something that famously includes drinking and parades, she'd be up in arms about it.

Hypocrite.

[JesusFightClub]

http://cameraluc.blogspot.com/2012/01/in-absence-of-god.html

Here's one. Liam Neeson hasn't been looking sad lately because he's been grieving over losing his wife Natasha in a tragic skiing accident in 2009, it's because he is devastated that the Canadian National Health Service let her die by not giving her good enough care. That led him to lose his Christian faith and now he's getting ready to convert to Islam. Yes, it's all because of Government health care!

And she has a go at Vanessa Redgrave too. Because picking on mums who lose their kids means you win at life.

Kidist doesn't even make sense there, and it's because she hasn't done her research (as usual). If for some strange reason you feel the urge to insult Vanessa Redgrave, the fact that she supports the NHS is hardly a far left position. So does most of the country.

You could have a shot at her about the WRP and Gerry Healy, but this would require research and thinking about stuff in depth, neither of which Kidist excels at.

[2xx1xy1JD]

Plus, since when does any adult in the western world refrain from having an opinion just because their mother-in-law might disagree? Lord knows I agree with my ILs all the time (and compared with my friends, I have a good relationship with them).

[super skeptic]

OMG Kidist, shut up about "tall, white men."

WHITE MEN CAN BE SHORT, YOU KNOW? She's not only racist, now she's height-ist, too?

[Jezebel]

Okay, I can't help but snark her shoe-buying post.

She was in the Bay, trying on shoes, and another woman was buying a pair of bright yellow sandals. Kidist had to slag on this other woman by telling the salesclerk that yellow was "out," and that black and beige combos were "in" for spring.

Kidist, you delusional dumbass, yellow is huge for spring. It's one of the big colors for this year (along with other brights). Which I'd kind of expect you to know, given that you work in a clothing store and claim to be a fashionista.

And now I'm just going to sit back and wait for a celebrity (preferably Michelle Obama) to show up in a yellow Vera Wang gown...

[super skeptic]

Okay, I can't help but snark her shoe-buying post.

She was in the Bay, trying on shoes, and another woman was buying a pair of bright yellow sandals. Kidist had to slag on this other woman by telling the salesclerk that yellow was "out," and that black and beige combos were "in" for spring.

Kidist, you delusional dumbass, yellow is huge for spring. It's one of the big colors for this year (along with other brights). Which I'd kind of expect you to know, given that you work in a clothing store and claim to be a fashionista.

And now I'm just going to sit back and wait for a celebrity (preferably Michelle Obama) to show up in a yellow Vera Wang gown...

I honestly think she's not happy unless she's berating someone else about something. I mean, really, remarks like that are SO. RUDE.

[Jezebel]

I honestly think she's not happy unless she's berating someone else about something. I mean, really, remarks like that are SO. RUDE.

Yeah, this. I can understand not liking someone else's taste in shoes, but why would you even say something like that? What purpose could that possibly serve--other than making you look like a judgmental busybody? And, typical of Kidist, she said it to a salesclerk, who is in no position to show even mild disagreement with her.

Kidist desperately needs people to look down on. Frankly, most people do, and to a certain degree that's normal. But as a child, Kidist was raised to believe she was part of an elite, elect group, and that she was entitled to certain privileges--only to end up, as an adult, in far-reduced material and social circumstances. She's considered black, for example, which I suspect is why she felt compelled to post about how her light-skinned former elite in Ethiopia was really Caucasian, and thus not really black like the Negroid Ethiopian masses.

And I can see how that would really screw with one's head, having reality turned upside down as hers has been. She was once selected to give flowers to the Emperor, and within a year she was in a completely alien country where she was seen as "just" a black girl. She was just a kid, and her whole world got blown apart. How do you cope with that? So I see her craziness as a set of coping mechanisms gone horribly, horribly wrong. Instead of strengthening her they're like cancerous tumors, killing her humanity.

And now here she is, almost 50, unmarried, a nobody, a mediocrity, living in a city where she is surrounded by other immigrants who are accepted, even embraced. They even intermarry with traditionally higher-status whites (a group Kidist believes she's part of, even if whites don't see it). They have successful careers, including in design and the arts. And what does Kidist have? Well, we already know that. And what's she likely to have in the future? More of the same, baby. She's going nowhere. And I suspect that, on some level, she knows it.

So her need to put other immigrants and minorities "in their place" is understandable. If she can dismiss Vera Wang as a mediocrity, undeserving of her success, then she doesn't have to address her own failure as a designer. She can feel herself to be better than Vera Wang, and thus not everything is hopeless. And by identifying herself as a fashionista, who knows about clothing and beauty and good taste, she can be superior to strangers out in public by condemning their clothing choices. She's better than the woman at the Bay who bought yellow sandals--and that the clerk didn't challenge her on her statement is proof of her rightness.

Yeah, she fascinates me. LOL

[super skeptic]

I love her "every immigrant should go back to where they came from...except me" post.

I have half a mind to send her a "Then go back to Ethiopia, please. We do not like racists in our country" e-mail. But I'm not that mean. I think.

[clarinetpower]

In her latest post, she relates stories of her days working at a Canadian Immigrant Agency where she "had a modicum of success". Apparently, she has the answer to the worldwide problem of domestic violence. Of course she does.

I've had at a few men (often the situation is to embarrassing to talk about for men) recount their ordeals to me in detail, starting with a psychological blockage that doesn't allow them to continue a normal life, to missing their children. They were also profoundly ashamed that they were now known as wife batterers. I never went into the "violent" situations, but it was clear to me that the men lost the most.

Oh, how I wish she *had* gone into some of those violent situations. I am sure she could have done so much, since she quite obviously understands things so much better than anyone else on the planet. :roll:

(BTW, Jezebel, good synopsis of Kidist's raison d'être. She is a whackadoodle sumpremo.)

[GolightlyGrrl]

Okay, I can't help but snark her shoe-buying post.

She was in the Bay, trying on shoes, and another woman was buying a pair of bright yellow sandals. Kidist had to slag on this other woman by telling the salesclerk that yellow was "out," and that black and beige combos were "in" for spring.

Kidist, you delusional dumbass, yellow is huge for spring. It's one of the big colors for this year (along with other brights). Which I'd kind of expect you to know, given that you work in a clothing store and claim to be a fashionista.

And now I'm just going to sit back and wait for a celebrity (preferably Michelle Obama) to show up in a yellow Vera Wang gown...

Ooh, Michelle in a yellow Vera Wang gown. I bet she'll look divine.

Black and beige pumps are classic and will never go out of style. But you are right. Brights, including yellow, are huge this spring. And it's probably best to invest in a pair of trendy shoes or accessories rather than going whole hog with your wardrobe.

Kidist is horrible, but I have an inkling she might also be mentally ill. I don't think she's straight up evil like Zuzu or the Stinking Lousewife.

[clarinetpower]

But note how she had to photoshop alter the shoes to make them acceptable. I hate her superiority. And her much-lauded designs just plain stink. The spring flowers one looks like Sharpie and crayon, and it's poorly balanced and has no flow. A 12-year old could have done better.

I wonder where she works, and if her boss knows about the hatred and vitriol she spews online. My bet, if he/she did, Kidist wouldn't be working in public service much longer.

[2xx1xy1JD]

She works in a clothing store called Laura, at the Eaton Centre in Toronto.

I'm not downtown that often these days, but I'm tempted to swing by the store with a package of screen shots for her manager the next time that I'm down there.

[GolightlyGrrl]

She works in a clothing store called Laura, at the Eaton Centre in Toronto.

I'm not downtown that often these days, but I'm tempted to swing by the store with a package of screen shots for her manager the next time that I'm down there.

Oooh, do it.

And if I'm not mistaken, I also thought Kidist mentioned she also works at a museum.

[MrsYoungie]

She works in a clothing store called Laura, at the Eaton Centre in Toronto.

I'm not downtown that often these days, but I'm tempted to swing by the store with a package of screen shots for her manager the next time that I'm down there.

I'm down that way frequently. Would it be too stalkerish to drop by and peek at such an anomaly? We see so few irrationally overt racists in Toronto.

[Aurora]

I've actually shopped there! Not the Toronto one, though. The salespeople seemed perfectly nice and normal. I bet her co-workers can't stand her.

[Marian the Librarian]

There's a new post on Kidist's blog - an email from a 76 year old gay man (in response to her "My Husband" post about the gay Jeopardy contestant). Her response, in part:

No, I don't have to "live the reality of your existence." You don't get it, do you? People will never accept your way of life, even in our modern, "progressive" world. You are outcasts, and of course, since I'm religious, I also say that you are sinners.