What I Take Helen to Be Doing Was Following a Norm

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The piece is not ascribing helen a particular view. She actually had and has deep thoughts about all these but what i took her to be doing in that situation was following a norm. So there's a way of navigating those circumstances. Their's kind of rights and rituals, their's prescribed actions. We might do because we think we don't have a better answer than the people around us. And so maybe it's just kind of a moral argument all the way down.

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