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Another one? Notice how they all gravitate towards the education sector - probably because people find it awkward to call them out on it.
I'm not sure a sample size of only 2 is sufficient to conclude that. Still ...
I suspect that at least in these two cases it had a lot to do with being a younger adult in academe - where progressive mindsets and PC hair-splitting are more common than in the society at large. It's probably also relevant that both women were engaged in academic areas and activities involving ethnicity and race relations.
Krug mentioned she'd had "mental health" issues relating to identity dating back to her youth, and Vitolo-Haddad mentioned in her online apologies she'd been grappling with issues of self-identification / self-attribution.