Identity Politics - A New Perspective

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The term identity politics has strayed far from what the combahi river collective, the group that coined it, meant in 19 77. For combahi, the concept was a way to identify how capitalism, raceism, patriarchy and homophobia created a set of interlocking oppressions. The point of identifying how those systems operated together was not to create an itemized politics of rity, but rather to create a framework for solidarity. It's about how standpoint epistemology is instead put into practice as what femi tiwo calls deference Epistemology.

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