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 injustice - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epistemic_injustice
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