insecurity princess 🌈💖🔥 on Nostr: "There might, for instance, be mitigating circumstances such as when the subject's ...

"There might, for instance, be mitigating circumstances such as when the subject's patterns of judgement are influenced by the prejudices of his day in a context where it would take a very exceptional epistemic character to overcome those prejudices. These might be circumstances in which it is simply too much to expect the subject to achieve awareness that a certain prejudice is structuring his social consciousness, let alone to realign his habits of credibility judgement accordingly." [Epistemic Injustice]

Oh fuck off, rational judgement from a position of ignorance does not produce extenuating circumstances to negate a clear case of identity-prejudicial credibility deficit

Fucking philosophers, y'know some of us have to actually live in this fucking world

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