Organizing in Response to the Disadvantages of Oppression and Trama

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Tamar Jacoby: Oppression undermines people's sense of their own political efficacy. She says organizing, at its most basic level, aims to change that. "It tells you that it doesn't matter that people don't have labs or research time," she writes. 'That those things don't matter'

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 Support The Dig at Patreon.com/TheDig Read our newsletter at thedigradio.com