The point is the accusation of privilege is often a rhetorical weapon deployed to gain epistemological advantage. That should be resisted.
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If an American university prof lectures you about privilege, do remind them they're amongst the most privileged cohort ever to have existed.
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Look, I once even wrote about it! https://www.philosophersmag.com/opinion/7-the-antinomies-of-privilege …
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Needless to say, privilege is real, most of us on Twitter are hugely privileged, particularly in terms of our life chances,
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But there is no straightforward connection between privilege (or the absence thereof), and epistemological, or indeed moral, veracity.
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Does that make them wrong?
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Maybe "not necessarily" better than "no"? The no is factually accurate, but might be misleading to some
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