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🗓️ 1 July 2022
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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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1:12.9 | This week we are rerunning our December 2020 interview with Femme Taiwo on his brilliant |
1:18.2 | essay Being in the Room privilege, Elite Capture and Epistemic Deference. |
1:24.3 | Our veiling identity politics norms call on people to listen to the most affected or |
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1:36.4 | We're reposting this interview now, which is really one of the best we've ever done, |
1:40.8 | because it pairs so well with last week's interview with Jared Clemens on in this house |
1:45.1 | we believe racial liberalism. |
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