The issue of race and gender representation has really kind of been competing with attention to appointees ideology for space in the newspaper. What do you make of these dynamics, where it's not just in actives spaces or in academia, but where really at the highest echelons of empire and capital? I fully embrace my cynical side. Find me a person who argues that, and i'll find you a liara. There's not anything else to say about those people. It's entirely cynical appropriation and cooption of kinds of thoughts that often travel in tandum with standpoint epistemology. And i think we should, you know, let those people be disingenuous, but worry about what
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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