• atzanteol@sh.itjust.works
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      3 days ago

      I have no idea why Oprah gets so much praise when she launched these two pieces of shit into the world.

      • CurlyWurlies4All@slrpnk.net
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        Oprah herself was picked for her role because she was explicitly a neo-liberal individualist who did not believe that structural systems where as relevant as how an individual ‘feels’.

        There’s a quote that came up in a 1989 profile of Oprah in the New York Times,

        “When Winfrey was hired for AM Chicago, the station manager was, according to her executive producer, Deborah Dimaio, delighted that he had managed to find someone who wasn’t, an “Angela Davis type who’d pickett the station with a gun in her hair.”

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      Also idk if they got their starts on Oprah specifically, but Marianne Wilkinson and Deepak Chopra. She’s like patient zero of woo woo bullshit.