Most of What We Read on the Internet is Written by Insane People

Re:Most of What We Read on the Internet is Written by Insane... by airstrike on Friday January 11, 2019 @02:10PM (#18885976)

She's in the spotlight because she's an amazingly accomplished person. A 54-year-old black woman from the South Side of Chicago who went to Princeton despite her high-school career advice telling her "she wasn't really Princeton material".

It also helps that she wrote a #1 NY Times best-seller that everyone is talking about[0]. Maybe if you read it you will understand what makes her so special.

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Re:Most of What We Read on the Internet is Written by Insane... by piaste on Friday January 11, 2019 @02:40PM (#18886191)

> She's in the spotlight because she's an amazingly accomplished person.

I refuse to believe that you honestly believe that.

54-year-old black women from the South Side of Chicago who go to Princeton occasionally get an interview in a local magazine and enjoy fifteen minutes of something that if you squint might pass for fame. If they fight a high-profile court case, they may get a two-paragraph Wikipedia article without a photo. To go further they need to become federal judges, or achieve a comparably prestigious position.

Women who marry a President of the United States automatically get on the cover of national magazines and have their Wikipedia page protected from non-logged in editors. If they're accomplished and eloquent as well, sure, that's a bonus.

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Re:Most of What We Read on the Internet is Written by Insane... by r00fus on Saturday January 12, 2019 @01:14AM (#18889999)

Little unfair. She married a lawyer/community organizer who ran for congressman (lost) then Senate then President over 20 years.

She was almost as much part of the Obama presidential image as her husband.

That ain’t peanuts.

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Re:Most of What We Read on the Internet is Written by Insane... by airstrike on Friday January 11, 2019 @04:55PM (#18887554)

> > She's in the spotlight because she's an amazingly accomplished person.

> I refuse to believe that you honestly believe that.

I'm offering one explanation for why she is more in the spotlight than the wives of foreign presidents. I didn't say being married to Obama wasn't a factor in her popularity. Read again.

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Re:Most of What We Read on the Internet is Written by Insane... by username90 on Friday January 11, 2019 @04:07PM (#18887012)

I don't understand, what makes her more inspiring than these women?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ursula_Burns https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosalind_Brewer

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Re:Most of What We Read on the Internet is Written by Insane... by airstrike on Friday January 11, 2019 @04:47PM (#18887473)

Sorry, but can you quote where I ranked her above any other black woman?

I guess not.

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Re:Most of What We Read on the Internet is Written by Insane... by perl4ever on Friday January 11, 2019 @11:05PM (#18889566)

I have heard Ursula Burns speak, and she wasn't inspiring. Although I was doubtless biased by her disengagement from the part of the company I belonged to.

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