Re:FT Person of the Year: Susan Fowler
by r00fus on Tuesday December 12, 2017 @03:27PM
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I fail to see why her being proud of her success both despite and because of her upbringing should be cause of criticism just because she fails to acknowledge her "class peers" who failed to make it where she did... it's sort of implicit (esp. since she didn't in any way denigrate them for "not working hard enough").
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Re:FT Person of the Year: Susan Fowler
by erikpukinskis on Wednesday December 13, 2017 @11:38AM
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I think the point is that as a group we should care about bias even though some people are able to fight through it.
It’s like people who say “how could America be racist if Obamacare got elected” which I have been hearing a lot lately. You can have a system that’s massively unfair... the existence of a handful of people who succeed despite unfairness is not evidence of anything except that some people are extraordinary.
Re:FT Person of the Year: Susan Fowler
by r00fus on Wednesday December 13, 2017 @02:58PM
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To not expect bias for someone only talking about her own experiences (and not comparing herself to others) sounds like you're trying to be criticize for criticisms's sake.
It's the onus of FT to contextualize Ms. Fowler's comments, if that's what you're getting at, but then again, it is FT not People magazine (take it for what it's worth).