The bits of reality one knows are selected by class position, never neutrally.
Evidence
If one has ‘known Pakistan for a long ti.rpe’ and yet, because of circumstance, ‘learned’ it only ‘by slices’, the question naturally arises: which ‘slices’ has one chosen to ‘learn’? For, if we do not choose our own ‘bits’ of reality, those ‘bits’ will then be chosen for us by our class origin, our jobs, the circuits of our friendships and desires, our ways of spending our leisure time, our literary predilections, our political affiliationsor lack of them. There are no neutral ‘bits’, not even of not-knowing. — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory, 545
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Class consciousness shapes the gestalt of thought, not its details