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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Seems like the need for many to find an "oppressed identity" or whatever it's called can be an attempt to deny their privilege.
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Indeed, with the hope there this will give their musings, born in their oppression & suffering, added epistemological currency.
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