Premium Episode 222: Race Change To Another, Subliminals & Oli London (Sample)
An online community convinced they can change their race by watching and listening to youtube videos called "subliminals". The "Race Change To Another" or RCTA crowd have more tangible counterparts in figures like Oli London, a person who first garnered media attention for getting a bunch of plastic surgery to resemble a male K-POP star, and has since become a right wing talking head at the center of the anti-trans panic. A cursed episode for sure.
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Sources:
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/race-change-to-another-trend-online-rcna93759
https://www.vice.com/en/article/xwegyn/are-subliminal-videos-on-youtube-messing-people-up
Welcome, listener, to Premium Chapter 222 of the QAnon Anonymous podcast, the race change to another episode.
Uh-oh.
As always, we are your hosts, Jake Rakitansky, Julian Field, Liv Aker, and Travis View.
Sometimes, when I pick a topic for an episode, I come to regret it in the research stages.
Never has this been more true than with R-C-T-A, or Race Change to Another, which we'll be exploring this week.
The decision to pick it put me on a collision course with concepts like race and gender, which if you had not noticed, are at the heart of an ongoing culture war.
From the bad faith movement against critical race theory, To the marginal phenomenon of transmaxing, it's something we've been attempting to cover with some degree of tact and care.
But somehow, this week's topic feels impossible to explore without fully becoming a crab, submerged in the brine and mud at the bottom of the cultural bucket, clacking around in distress.
So, prepare to be angered, confused, and disturbed and to get some sand on your tiny, beady, grape-shaped eyes by this exploration of the online RCTA community and, more specifically, the extremely annoying figure known as Ollie London.
Now, London, if you don't know, is a person who first garnered media attention for getting a bunch of plastic surgery to resemble a specific male K-pop star, and has since become a right-wing talking head at the center of the anti-trans panic.
So, Liv, as the Zoomer I've asked to guide me in an attempt to stave off cancellation, would you say that racism and transphobia are bad and wrong, or cool and good?
That's a really tough question to answer, Julian.
I can't speak for the racism thing, but at least in terms of transphobia, it's good only when it's funny.
That's the only exception.
And I'm the person who determines whether it's funny or not.
Well, I guess we'll go on that side of the fence.
Both are funny.
And that is the official position of Travis View and Jake.
Wait a minute, hold on.
I was looking down at my phone.
I wasn't even paying attention to you, Julian.
What are you signing me up for?
Before you know it, you're not paying attention and you're on trial in Nuremberg.
Wait a minute.
What I was actually doing was, as soon as I heard, got plastic surgery to look like a specific K-pop star, you know I went to the, you know I went to the phone to look up pictures and, uh, yikes.
Yeah, don't worry.
You'll see plenty of Olly London.
That's coming down the line.
But first, we have to explore RCTA.
A few days ago, on July 30th, 2023, an article written by Emmy Tuyet-Nhi Tran was published on the NBC News website, titled, Inside the Online World of People Who Think They Can Change Their Race.
But, before we dig into this melted digital community, we have to go back in time to 2015, when the world first became aware of a woman named Rachel Dolezal.
Now, although she wasn't the first, nor would she be the last person to lie about their race, her case was particularly egregious.
She was a chapter president for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, or NAACP, in Spokane, Washington, from 2014 until June of the following year, when this very awkward interview with a local news channel occurred.
Now, in it, she was asked by the interviewer whether there was any truth to her claim that an African-American man named Albert Wilkinson was her father.
Yeah, that's my dad.
This man right here is your father?
Right there?
Do you have a question about that?
Yes, ma'am.
I was wondering if your dad really is an African-American man.
That's a very... I mean, I don't know what you're implying.
Are you African-American?
I don't understand the question.
I did tell you that, yes, that's my dad.
And he was unable to come in January.
Are your parents, are they white?
So you couldn't see that, folks, but she was saying, I refuse, as she just walked off.
It's unclear what she refuses, but I think she just refuses what she knew would be the rest of her life.
For years, Dolezal had pretended to be black, constructing a web of falsities about her identity and the alleged abuse she suffered as a person of color.
She had repeatedly spoken publicly about hate crimes against her, none of which had been corroborated or resulted in the filing of any criminal charges.
I want to stop for a second and just go over why this is so, I guess, stupid of her, because she probably could have just gone under the radar, but she over and over was like, oh yeah, someone left a noose on my front porch, you know, like just...
Just insane lies that draw way too much attention to yourself and you know it would come out later that she was lying about a bunch of other stuff like she got fired from other positions not just for the race stuff but because she's also I think like some form of compulsive liar or has a habit of lying let's put it that way.
Yeah, you kind of see this with, like, indigeneity.
And it's specifically white women who are much more commonly, like, prone to do this, where, like, they'll say, like, yes, I'm indigenous.
You see this with, like, Elizabeth Warren, who called herself, like, the first woman of color Harvard Law professor.
God damn it, dude.
But yeah, like, this is, like, kind of in a step up almost in terms of compulsive lying.
Like, the vast array of, like, lies you have to construct for this one.
It later turned out that Dolezal was born to two white parents of Czech, German, and Swedish descent, so those are three of the possibly whitest origins, who in 2015 came out to the media and stated so.
Now, before you applaud the parents, it is worth considering that by all accounts, her parents were horrible people.
physically abusive to both her and their four black adopted kids who were added to the family when Dolezal was a
teenager.
One of them later petitioned to have his sister become his legal guardian because there was so much like abuse in the
family.
So fuck the parents and I suppose long live Rachel. She's a she's an angel.
Long story short, Dolezal ended up in a media firestorm, resigned from the NAACP,
and is now a hairdresser who runs an OnlyFans as a side hustle. As some of you may know,
she's also close friends with Travis Few, having once made the following video for him, which was definitely not
commissioned by me through Cameo.
Hi Travis, this is Rachel Dolezal with a little shoutout from Julian Feld.
So, I hear that you have been doxxed and kind of made redundant by your employer, QAA.
And I know that it's super hard to have that situation.
I hope that although you're going through this current really difficult time that you can just kind of keep your head up, keep Keep your hopes up that things will get better.
And as a person who's been through the ringer and been beat up online, I know that it can be really challenging, you know, and it can really strike a blow to your spirit.
So I hope you're taking care of yourself.
I hope that your mind and your spirit are strong and that your body is healthy.
And those are the basic things.
Stay strong.
I hope that this kind of resolves and I wish you the best.
Once again, this little shout out is from Julian Field.
Wow, that probably is the best thing that you've ever done.
What's so funny about it is that the least person on the podcast who needs a message like that is Travis.
When this was made, I was in like the depths of depression and addiction and Travis was probably hiking to the top of
a mountain.
Yeah, exactly.
It's like, keep your head up, Travis.
He's like, what do you mean?
It's already way up.
Yeah, this is great shit.
You know, I've experienced a lot of absurd things because of this podcast.
Going to Tom Arnold's home, watching a breakaway cult leader recite from the Book of Revelations in the field in Pennsylvania, be cursed out by Jim Watkins, but really up there has to be the fact that I got a pep talk from Rachel Dolezal.
The Dolezal case, besides teaching us a lot about Travis, is mostly interesting because of what happened a few years after her fall from grace.
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