Lived Experience
Overthink
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The Epistemic Superiority of Standpoints at the Margin
The idea here is that the experience of oppression paradoxically gives one epistemic privilege. Epistemic pertains to how and what we know. In 2020 in the context of racism, especially anti black racism, you heard all those calls for white people to listen. This theory about the superiority of standpoints at the margins is the reason why appeals to lived experience almost exclusively happen in situations where questions of power, discrimination and domination are involved.
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