I want to address something Jimmy Kimmel says here. "Comedy is very democratic. The people who are great, rise to the top; the people who are good, rise to the middle; and the people who aren’t good, don’t make it."http://www.vulture.com/2018/10/jimmy-kimmel-louis-c-k-comedy-cellar-comebacks.html?utm_campaign=vulture&utm_medium=s1&utm_source=tw …
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In my own life, I think of it like turning up the levels on your microphone, not because other people aren't speaking at the same volume, but because *you don't hear all frequencies well*. You have to make a specific effort to hear across a spectrum.
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Your effort is to compensate for your own limitations, not to compensate for other people's not being able to compete. And those limitations aren't necessarily because you're a bad person! Two equally aware, thoughtful people can have totally different references.
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I am much more likely to *naturally notice* things that vibrate on a frequency that thrums in my head, but as a curator, I can't confuse that with quality or meritocracy. So if you don't notice gender, if you "don't see color" with comics? You'll perpetuate your own limits.
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Okay bye. I have to stop thinking about this, because it's maddening.
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It really is. Dude Opinions can really stuff it.
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Thank you for this
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Thanks for this. I came into this thread not agreeing with you, but this tweet reminded me of similar things I've said about hiring practices in tech and you changed my mind.
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