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You Just Won't Understand!

The Good Fight

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Understanding Injustice: Knowledge and Experience

This chapter examines how personal experiences shape our understanding of injustices, particularly in the realm of oppression. It contrasts propositional knowledge, or factual understanding, with qualitative knowledge derived from lived experience, illustrated through the thought experiment of Mary and her journey to perceiving color. The discussion emphasizes the complexities of communicating personal experiences of injustice and the limitations of empathy in political activism, particularly in issues like sex work.

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