This is unfair to author of Coates piece, who coined the much-needed phrase "indenity epistemology."
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Replying to @amlamey
Don't know how it's unfair since it's a pretty direct summary of his argument!
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Also: since humans are historically embedded beings, there can be no epistemology that doesn't include identity.
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Replying to @HeerJeet
This is not relevant to what he meant by identity epistemology.
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Replying to @amlamey
Well, if it doesn't mean something like that then there is no "identity epistemology" that encompasses both TNC & Richard Spencer.
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Replying to @HeerJeet
It means "standpoint epistemology": there is a special problem of you knowing my racial/gender/orientation etc. experience . . .
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Replying to @amlamey
Thing is "standpoint epistemology" doesn't describe vast majority of TNC's work, which is grounded in scholarship,mainly history & sociology
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Replying to @HeerJeet
OK. That part of article cited social media to make a point about (some) current racial justice discourse.
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Replying to @amlamey
That's what I'm objecting to! Instead of situating TNC with online discourse, he should be placed in context of black intellectual history.
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Replying to @HeerJeet
The piece was referring to replies to TNC critic George Packer. Those replies, like much racial justice discussion, now takes place online.
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The idea that George Packer -- a New Yorker staff writer who was given space in Atlantic to respond -- is persecuted is...strange.
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Replying to @HeerJeet
Straw doll. Criticisms of Packer can be worth analyzing even if he is not "persecuted."
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Replying to @amlamey
"For having the temerity to defend himself" (Williams' words) suggests that Packer is somehow persecuted or in subservient position.
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