Re:With trust destroyed, Facebook is haunted by old data deals
by rchaud on Wednesday December 19, 2018 @12:56PM
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The "I'm not important enough" comment got me thinking about something Chris Rock said on a podcast (w/ Marc Maron) when he was asked if he faced racism when he was starting out as a comic.
He replied that when he was starting out, he was small fry, so he didn't face anything beyond what he would as an average, non-comedian African American. In the comedy circuit, he was mostly ignored, but not explicitly discriminated against.
Once he reached a certain popularity level, and he was in the running for spots on talk shows, SNL, TV episodes, he started to notice it. The stakes are a lot higher, and there are lots of people coveting those TV appearances. So suddenly, people who would otherwise never even notice him, were acting in ways to specifically exclude him from the running in areas that were traditionally reserved for white comedians.
Just because you aren't important enough to be spied on today doesn't mean that you won't appear on someone's threat radar later.
He replied that when he was starting out, he was small fry, so he didn't face anything beyond what he would as an average, non-comedian African American. In the comedy circuit, he was mostly ignored, but not explicitly discriminated against.
Once he reached a certain popularity level, and he was in the running for spots on talk shows, SNL, TV episodes, he started to notice it. The stakes are a lot higher, and there are lots of people coveting those TV appearances. So suddenly, people who would otherwise never even notice him, were acting in ways to specifically exclude him from the running in areas that were traditionally reserved for white comedians.
Just because you aren't important enough to be spied on today doesn't mean that you won't appear on someone's threat radar later.