Corporate epistemic authority silences the people it constructs by branding them ignorant

Evidence

In other words, American understanding of Muslims, Islam, and the places they inhabit bears a disregard for real Muslims. It is a thin, prejudice-laden misunderstanding of a constructed monolithic Islam, and an ignorance of countries ranging from the Middle East to the Indonesian Archipelago to North, East, and West Africa. The knowledge produced by European and American corporate institutions is, however, always considered more objective and valid than anything the “natives” say about themselves. Thus, those natives cannot even refute the inaccuracies because of their ignorance at best, or mendacity at worst. — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 221

Categorization

• XREF: The ‘natives cannot refute’ silencing logic parallels the extract on press freedom where colonized subjects lose the right to speak for themselves, and Choudhury’s running moral about institutional knowledge production. — connects to: Corporate brand logic imposes a forced timeless consistency on personal identity — Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing: Resisting the…, 552; Elite silence follows the ideal of value-free rational professionalism — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 356; A strategic essentialist identity can silence the very groups it unites — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2: Identity…, 248 (+9 more)

Broader Connections

• Structurally engineered ignorance diffuses moral responsibility for a product’s misuse #expands (0.85) — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 1096
• A strategic essentialist identity can silence the very groups it unites #expands (0.82) — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 248
• The commodified self-image conceals an underlying corporate apparatus #expands (0.82) — Grant Bollmer, Katherine Guinness, The Influencer Factory, 371
• Epistemic ignorance is actively produced by a refusal to notice #corroborates (0.80) — Ann Laura Stoler, Along the Archival Grain_ Epistemic…, 1529
• Willful ignorance is achieved by avoiding actions that would reveal unwanted knowledge #expands (0.80)
• Corporate ideologies can make harming others seem appropriate #expands (0.78)
• Elite silence follows the ideal of value-free rational professionalism #expands (0.75) — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 356
• Undifferentiated power conflates truth with decision-making authority #complicates (0.75)
• Human minds carry epistemic-vigilance biases against being duped #expands (0.74)
• Corporate brand logic imposes a forced timeless consistency on personal identity #expands (0.72) — Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing, 552
• Public figurehood under brand logic forbids change, ambiguity, and contradiction #expands (0.72)