@beet_keeper call me unimpressed when their illustrative example is an arXiv preprint, for which people had to submit valid TeX and when all the world‘s linguistic diversity reduced to a single metric for “non-English”.

#TechBros #EpistemicViolence

1. stop parroting the faux intellectualism of fascists. #deconstruction is an antifascist form of academic analysis. what they mean is destruction.

2. #EpistemicViolence is censorship of all kinds. it’s meant to create a false narrative of agreement.

3. like “Gulf of America” #EpistemologicalViolence is meant to completely change reality by destroying all social contracts.

recognize these forms of violence. violence isn’t only by guns. it’s always by ideology first and foremost. / 🧵

3. it is important that we name properly what is happening.

a. banning books and words is what Gayatri Chkravorty-Spivak described as #EpistemicViolence. it’s the “my way or the highway” way of speaking and thinking that is at the heart of all forms of colonialism; settler, technological or otherwise.

Interlude: Epistemic Violence | SpringerLink - https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-476-05598-9_14

the Wikipedia page on “epistemic injustice” needs to be renamed
Epistemic violence - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epistemic_injustice

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