What Was She Thinking About?

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Helen Poynter had a story idea that involved thinking about the environmental consequences of policy decisions. The kind of person she was imagining, given the story idea, was am the sort of person who's black and grew up in a red lined community. She thought at the right thing to do, on some understanding of right was to pass along the story idea to someone else.

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 Support The Dig at Patreon.com/TheDig Read our newsletter at thedigradio.com