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Identity, Power, and Speech with Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò

The Dig

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What Is Standpoint Epistemology?

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

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