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- {"content": "I will have an undergraduate class, let\u2019s say a young white male student, politically-correct, who will say: \u201cI am only a bourgeois white male, I can\u2019t speak.\u201d \u2026 I say to them: \u201cWhy not develop a certain degree of rage against the history that has written such an abject script for you that you are silenced?\u201d Then you begin to investigate what it is that silences you, rather than take this very determinist position-since my skin colour is this, since my sex is this, I cannot speak\u2026 From this position, then, I say you will of course not speak in the same way about the Third World material, but if you make it your task not only to learn what is going on there through language, through specific programmes of study, but also at the same time through a historical critique of your position as the investigating person, then you will have earned the right to criticize, you be heard. When you take the position of not doing your homework- \u201cI will not criticize because of my accident of birth, the historical accident\u201d - that is the much more pernicious position.", "id": "4f0a7f2b-d0fb-45ec-b2e5-6234d2bb948a", "author": "Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak"}
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