There's a tired debate that pits race against class, or various forms of identity against class. I'm not even sure what it would mean to pitt race verses class, especially on the view of the world that i have. There's power over your material circumstances. And there's various ways to answer the question of how this or that person ended up with power over their material circumstances. But once you've answered it, then you have something to use to understand the world.
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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