Suffering is partial, short sighted and self absorbed. We shouldn't have politics that expects different pression. Is not a prep school. How does deference epistemology rely upon this conveying of a sort of pedagogical status upon suffering and drama? And why, contrary to conventional wisdom, is that neither accurate nor helpful? The world contains the depths of violence and despair, where we could test this theory out. You could go to places post genicide, you could see how character building of an experience trome was. I just don't understand the reverence that trama holds in some political corners. That's not what it means to me. It strikes me as
Featuring Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò on his essay "Being-in-the-Room Privilege: Elite Capture and Epistemic Deference," an interview first posted in December 2020. This pairs well with last week's Jared Clemons interview on In This House We Believe antiracism. Since 2020, Táíwò has published a book expanding on these ideas: Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else).
Read Táíwò's essay: thephilosopher1923.org/post/being-in-the-room-privilege-elite-capture-and-epistemic-deference
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