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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 motivation as anyone else.




The (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.


People 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)




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