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This article challenging Jill Biden’s use of the (earned, factually correct) title “Dr” speaks to deep layers of unacknowledged bullshit, concerning the expertise of women and people of color. https://www.wsj.com/articles/is-there-a-doctor-in-the-white-house-not-if-you-need-an-m-d-11607727380
The problem is not with Dr. Biden, it is with the cultural construct of expertise, who is presumed to have it, and who is given permission to wield the terms of power that signify it.
In dominant culture (the culture #JosephEpstein is repping in his bullshit WSJ op-ed), the construct of “expert” is based on false hierarchies - crafted to exclude the vast majority of the world’s knowledge (including the expertise of women and people of color).
To test what I’ve just said, do a Google image search of the term “expert” and see what pops up—and who. These are the first three pages of search results I get. Notice anything missing? #DrJillBiden #JosephEpstein #wsj
Well? This dominant construct of expertise—the construct the #WSJ is perpetuating by running this op-ed—is not only flawed, it is stupid. Literally: it’s stupid because it filters out the vast majority of the world’s intelligence. It is based on false hierarchies of knowledge.
In this brief important thread, @atima_omara (a #PublicVoices fellow of @TheOpEdProject in 2018 
) lays out why women and especially BIPOC end up extra-credentialing themselves—as a result of this expertise racket: https://twitter.com/atima_omara/status/1337817471168950272
) lays out why women and especially BIPOC end up extra-credentialing themselves—as a result of this expertise racket: https://twitter.com/atima_omara/status/1337817471168950272
