Is There a Relationship Between Access to the Room and the Other People?

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I think the focus on what's going on in the room obscures the broader social questions that we might ask if we were thinking equivalently about the people who aren't in the room. The very things that put me in the room where justice is the thing to talk about might explain why when i talk about racial justice, i talk about the sorts of things that are of concern to m the sorts of people who could make it into fancy panels and so on forth.

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