This is one of the most important essays i can recall readinga and i will include a link to it in the show note so that every one who has not already read it can do so. So many powerful pass s, when that really hid home was your analysis of how deference epistomology can make white people, or others deemed privileged, into pretty crappy comrades. You writequt, for those who defer the habit can supercharge moral cowardice. The norms provide social cover for the abdication of responsibility. It places on to individual heroes, a hero class or a mythesized past, the work that is ours to do. Now in the present, their perspective
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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