There's a lot in liberal id pol that makes me nauseous, but one of the worst is how 'lived experience' (important, but not the only kind of knowledge) gets turned into a stamp of moral authority, in which no one can contest the facts of what's happening.
This isn't a subtweet, and nothing in particular has kicked this off, but it's just a growing sense that treating people as fonts of wisdom *solely* on the basis of their minority status is not only dehumanising, but also opens up the space for bad faith actors and grifters...
... who cynically wield the moral authority conferred by being a woman, or a person of colour, or whatever, in order to deny the existence of oppression or discrimination along identity lines.
You know, the people who make a living by being every racist's brown best friend.
You know, the people who make a living by being every racist's brown best friend.
The politics of recognition - the demand that one's minority status is seen and recognised - is limited at best, and deceptive at worst. And I think, ultimately, a dead end where liberation is concerned.
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