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Sone of us are older and take issue with how much attention she is drawing while not really organizing anything. She's a useful figurehead but there are people making her out to be akin to the American civil rights leaders of the past and she's not doing what they did in terms of grassroots organization. She's more Oprah, without the baggage she brings, than MLK.
She's neither the second coming of Christ nor is she a huckster. I think she's a sometimes media darling who does work herself but does not seem to be building a movement but rather shows up to be the face of it.
I'm really interested to know more about how she's like Oprah. Can you expand more on that?
She’s a media figure that gets credit for a lot of things others were doing but she is the face for.
She’s doing work but she isn’t organizing.
She’s doing the work but not in a way you like? What work are you doing to improve your community?
She's being celebrated for being a significant activist IRL who isn't effective at all. It's Occupy Wall Street all over again where people get really mad when you actually start asking what the results of that action was.