The truth was, there was something terribly dangerous about standpoint theory. If interpreted in a strict way, it suggested that groups were homogeneous. By saying that someone’s views were defined by their social context, standpoint theory implied that everyone in that social context thought the same way. It robbed people of their individuality. This same problem also operated on the group’s external boundaries. By making information processing dependent on identity, strict standpoint theory rejected the human capacity for empathy. It suggested that groups had hard shells and were utterly
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