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Jan 5, 2017For people like me, failure is not being able to raise $100,000, and then when I go to angel investors seeking funding, they ask me if I’ve raised any money. It’s like I’ve already failed because of the color of my skin and not having my own networks to provide resources.
↩︎ The New York Times
Despite the accoutrements she collected by the end of 2016—her shiny new mainstream NBC News gig, glamorous Vanity Fair cover, the veneer of respectability afforded by being attacked by Trump—it's good to remember that Megyn Kelly's record shows her to be a race-baiting demagogue who actively took part in Fox News's bigoted brand of information warfare for more than a decade.
Related: Her move to NBC allows perennially 17-year-old Young Republican Tucker Carlson to be rewarded with her old timeslot.
Jan 5, 2017I don’t want Tina Brown to top herself, but it would be nice if she was just a teensy weensy bit deflated by the sheer scale of her magazines’ losses.
↩︎ The Spectator
People associate failing upwards with public-facing jobs (athlete, CEO, movie star). This is less due to their actual job performance—though that obviously is an aspect—than the skittishness of those who hire them around taking any kind of risk on someone untested (even if they'd likely be better than someone who's mediocre but comes with experience).
This explanation, obviously, implicitly favors the white, the male, the straight, the wealthy.
Jan 5, 2017A résumé filled with grievous errors in the period 1996–2006 is not only a non-problem for further advances in the world of consensus; it is something of a prerequisite.
↩︎ The Baffler
