Social privilege blocks access to knowledge one is unequipped to understand.

Evidence

Unlearning one’s privilege by considering it as one’s loss constitutes a double recognition. Our privileges, whatever they may be in terms of race, class, nationality, gender, and the like, may have prevented us from gaining a certain kind of Other knowledge: not simply information that we have not yet received, but the knowledge that we are not equipped to understand by reason of our social positions. — Donna Landry and Gerald MacLean, The Spivak Reader, 37

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Concepts formed without social context restrict and confine knowledge — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the…, 738; Fields of knowledge are constrained by society, culture, and institutional power — Edward W. Said, Orientalism, 505; Elite-educated public intellectuals must unlearn privilege to serve pressing social issues — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 2669 (+5 more)

Broader Connections

• Elite-educated public intellectuals must unlearn privilege to serve pressing social issues #exemplifies (0.82) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 2669
• Concepts formed without social context restrict and confine knowledge #expands (0.80) — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man, 738
• Scholarly theoretical lenses can actively conceal social reality rather than reveal it #exemplifies (0.80) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 3491
• Fields of knowledge are constrained by society, culture, and institutional power #expands (0.78) — Edward W. Said, Orientalism, 505
• Communities rationally distrust outsiders for lack of knowledge, not just prejudice #complicates (0.75)
• Negative overall stereotypes block group access to desirable social roles. #exemplifies (0.72) — John F. Dovidio, Peter Glick, Laurie A. Rudman, On the Nature of Prejudice, 213