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  1. "Vulgar post-structuralist" identity politics: Privileged people can't know oppressed people's internal perspective. Actual classical economics: We can't assume that food is more valuable for the poor than luxuries are for the rich.
    oh my god twitter doesn’t include alt text from images in their APIoh my god twitter doesn’t include alt text from images in their API
    1. …in reply to @CarwilBJ
      And yet, identity politics but not classical economics is controversial as "an assault on the very nature of truth," while economics is rarely if ever discussed this way.
      1. …in reply to @CarwilBJ
        Clips from: Christian List, "Mission Impossible," DPhil-thesis, University of Oxford, p. 97. nuff.ox.ac.uk/users/list/DPhil-thesis/chapter7.pdf Robert Sexton, _Exploring Economics_ (yes, an intro textbook), p. 491.