The Cointelpro Papers: Documents from the FBI's Secret Wars against Domestic Dissent

Altherr, Thomas L.; Churchill, Ward; Wall, Jim Vander

doi:10.2307/1184791

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“…Consider the widespread disinformation and cover‐ups during COINTELPRO activity against Black radicals and the Civil Rights Movement in the United States. The FBI wrote that “the purpose of this new counterintelligence endeavor is to expose, disrupt, misdirect, discredit, or otherwise neutralize the activities of black nationalist” groups (Churchill & Vander Wall, 1990:92). This goal was achieved through a range of mechanisms, including through the cooperation of local news systematically misreporting on Black Nationalist movements in favor of the FBI's preferred narrative, as well as by directly disseminating false information into the Black community (Churchill & Vander Wall, 1990).…”

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Is there an epistemic advantage to being oppressed?

Dror

2022

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Do the oppressed have an epistemic advantage when it comes to knowing about the systems that oppress them? If so, what explains this advantage? In this paper, I consider whether an epistemic advantage can be derived from the oppressed's contingent tendency to have more relevant experiences and motivation than the non‐oppressed; or, alternatively, whether an advantage derives from the oppressed's very lived experience, thus being in principle unavailable to the non‐oppressed. I then explore the potential role of knowledge‐how for explaining an epistemic advantage. Ultimately, I conclude that the oppressed tend to have a contingent advantage, while rejecting that they have one in principle, except for when their phenomenological experience has an effect on the veracity of the claims they make. This has the important upshot that privileged people are not epistemically disadvantaged in principle and are thus often blameworthy for their ignorance about oppression.

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Section: Insights From Standpoint Theorymentioning

confidence: 99%