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How are fame, speaking engagements, and book deals not a form of profit? She's intelligent and worth listening to, but she has just as much personal bias and m
by brookst 3y ago
How are fame, speaking engagements, and book deals not a form of profit?
She's intelligent and worth listening to, but she has just as much personal bias and motivation as anyone else.
- Planktonne 3y agoThe (very small) amount of fame she's collected has come through her work in the field, and it's a field she's been in for a while; she's hardly chasing glory.
- brookst 3y agoPeople don’t have to be chasing fame to be warped by it. She has cultivated a following of like-minded people who provide ever more positive feedback for her ever more ideological writing. I mean she is literally dismissing people who disagree with her based on their skin color. Can we stop for a minute to wonder about the incentives that encourage that? (and I generally like her writing and think she has interesting things to say… but I do see a reward cycle going on)