The Politics of Deference Epistemology

The ability to decide who you defer to in strategic ways kind of cheapens what deference is. What's particularly interesting about that is the way that it kind of weaponizes the u.S.'s own history of segregation and its imprint on passage to elete bases. For most people in this country, particularly of affluent white backgrounds, their friend groups and social groups aren't that diverse. And so for a number of these people, the only contact to political perspectives on the relvan issues that they might have might just be the person trotted in front of them as a black woman with a perspective on this issue.