Citizenship is defined as exclusive to expert others who possess all facts

Evidence

Who is ”the public”? People who think they can make a difference are fools … Political silence was based on, and helped reproduce, Buffaloes’ ideas of citizenship: if the only people qualified to hold opinions are those who ”have all the facts,” then politics is not our responsibility. Politics is something that other people do, but not us. — Nina Eliasoph, Avoiding politics, 961

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Authorities define citizenship as technical fact-absorbing so activists mute politics in public forums — Nina Eliasoph, Avoiding politics: how Americans…, 1373

Broader Connections

• Authorities define citizenship as technical fact-absorbing so activists mute politics in public forums #corroborates (0.95) — Nina Eliasoph, Avoiding politics, 1373