"One of the things that my training in liberal humanities has helped me to understand is that our social position determines a lot of what we actually know about the world. People of color understand racism far more than white people ever will because we have experienced it. We live with it. We must learn how to navigate it. Women understand sexism far more than men ever will. We have experienced it. We live with it. We must learn how to navigate it. So that means in my corner of the world, that when a person speaks out of their experience of marginalization we listen. We recognize the limitations of our epistemology, or knowledge system. We recognize that as much as we may have tried to learn about something, we don't know everything. Some things we simply can't know."—Brittney Cooper, in a must-read piece about #CancelColbert and the reactions to it.
[H/T to Amanda Levitt.]
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