The converse is that society will ignore those species, or those people, who are speaking from a marginal position.
"You are speaking from a position of privilege," Jack said, "so you have no right to criticize us or tell us what to do".
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Among the Wakashan Indians of the Pacific Northwest, a grammatically correct sentence can't be formed without providing what linguists refer to as "evidentiality," inflecting the verb to indicate whether you are speaking from direct experience, inference, conjecture, or hearsay.
"People like [Facebook board member] Marc Andreessen are speaking from places of such massive privilege and are still so massively wrong," said Rohit Sharma, a venture capitalist with True Ventures, which has raised $878m.
But roughly speaking, it is a way of telling a person who is making a political point that they should remember they are speaking from a privileged position, because they are, for example, white, male, heterosexual, able-bodied or wealthy.
