Being silenced by privilege should provoke investigation, not mute self-abjection.

Evidence

In an interview in The Post-Colonial Critic, Spivak advises them, “‘Why not develop a certain degree of rage against the history that has written such an abject script for you that you are silenced?’ Then you begin to investigate what it is that silences you, rather than take this very deterministic position—since my skin colour is this, since my sex is this, I cannot speak” (p. 62). Doing one’s homework in the interests of unlearning one’s privilege marks the beginning of an ethical relation to the Other. — Donna Landry and Gerald MacLean, The Spivak Reader, 40

Categorization

• SEED: Directly counters the contemporary ‘I can’t speak as a privileged X’ stance — an essay on why self-silencing by privilege reverses into refusal to learn.
• XREF: connects to: A critique of silencing can itself reproduce the silence it indicts — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory: Nations, Classes, Literatures, 308

Broader Connections

• A critique of silencing can itself reproduce the silence it indicts #complicates (0.75) — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory, 308