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    4 days ago

    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.”