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I hate standpoint theory so much it's the biggest blight in talking to people to people on anything.

You can be educated on something but then they go 'erm but I come from this background "

I hate it so much it's so anti intellectual

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[–] MF_COOM@hexbear.net 18 points 3 days ago (1 children)

in a better position to know certain facts about the world related to that marginalization.

It's a pretty marginal claim. You don't think that's true?

[–] PorkrollPosadist@hexbear.net 53 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

It IS true, but once liberals learned about it, it got bastardized into "we found a Black person who says Joe Biden is good and you're being racist for dismissing their lived truth."

Instead of deferring to oppressed peoples as an epistomogical authority on the conditions of their own oppression, they just dig up people from the same category and use the language of standpoint epistemology to position them as authorities on any arbitrary self-serving issue.

[–] SuperZutsuki@hexbear.net 19 points 3 days ago

Essentially the same as cherry-picking transphobic "experts" to build up the Cass Report while ignoring the mountain of research that clearly shows transition is overwhelmingly positive and safe for 99% of people. Or finding the few pick-me trans people that will sell out their brothers and sisters for right-wing grift money (Blair White, Brianna Wu, etc).