You close your essay with a really interesting argument about what standpoint epistemology looks like when it is actually put into practice. You point to the struggle launched by residents of flint, michigan, in alliance with scientists to expose their cities contaminated drinking water and to get clean water. And you writeqote, they didn't need their oppression to be celebrated, centred or narrated in the newest academic parlance. They didn't need someone to understand what it felt like to be poisoned. What they needed was the lead out of their water. So they got to work. That's one kind of difference from moralizing ways of thinking about deferenceEpistemology being put into
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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