Lamp comments on "3 Reasons It’s Irrational to Demand ‘Rationalism’ in Social Justice Activism" - Less Wrong
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Where do you think priors come from? Okay, some come from your evolutionary heritage. But most come from experience. If you save all your experiences, you can always recompute all your priors from scratch, given enough time.
Clearly in social justice theory, you're not allowed to use priors, because priors are prejudice. But nothing says you're not allowed to examine all your past experience during each encounter, and reconstruct those same priors.
That wouldn't statisfy them, since the recomputed priors would be the same as the "racist" priors they want to get rid off.