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Identity, Power, and Speech with Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò

Jul 1, 2022

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What Is Standpoint Epistemology?

02:56

Organizing in Response to the Disadvantages of Oppression and Trama

04:00

Deference Epistemology

02:15

Introduction

3min

Identity Politics - A New Perspective

3min

The Call to Listen to the Most Affected

3min

What Was She Thinking About?

3min

What I Take Helen to Be Doing Was Following a Norm

3min

Does Helen's Presumption of Equivalence Obscure the Way That Racism and Other Forms of Domination Actually Operate?

2min

Deference Epistemology

2min

Deference Epistemology Is One Kind of Answer

3min

The Trap Wasn't That Standpoint Epistemology Was Affecting the Conversation

2min

10.

The Emphasis on Discourse and Language in Nigerian Politics

4min

11.

Is There a Relationship Between Access to the Room and the Other People?

3min

12.

Race Versus Class

2min

13.

What Is the Presumpte Exchange Rate Between the Attention Economy and the Material Economy?

6min

14.

Is There a Grifter Model of Social Justice?

5min

15.

Is It Still Better to Intentionally Have More Women, More Black People, More Latinos on Academic Panels?

2min

16.

The Black Man Is a Person Who Must Ride Jim Row in Georgia

5min

17.

What Does It Matter How We Talk to Each Other?

2min

18.

I'veon't Even Ow. I'll Find You a Liara.

2min

19.

The Politics of Deference Epistemology

3min

20.

Listen to Black Women

3min

21.

Elite Capture, How the Powerful Taked Over Identity Politics and Everything Other by Olufemitiwo

5min

22.

Deference Epistemology Can Facilitate Really Bad Organizational Vibrations

4min

23.

Deference Epistemology

4min

24.

Trama Is a Thing That Most People Don't Want to Experience

2min

25.

Organizing in Response to the Disadvantages of Oppression and Trama

4min

26.

Is Deference Epistemology Undermining Organizational Representation?

5min

27.

How Deference Epistomology Can Make White People, or Others Deemed Privileged, Into Pretty Crappies

3min

28.

Do You Have a Deference Epistemology?

3min

29.

The Importance of Experience

6min

30.

What Is Standpoint Epistemology?

3min

31.

What Is Needed in the Environment?

4min

32.

The Dig From Jacobin Magazine

2min

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