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Imagine an exquisitely refined society, the Heian court in Japan or the court of Louis XIV in France, where etiquette required that every utterance had to be preceded by a ritual confession of the speaker's improper credentials.

The rule is that I begin by confessing my bad faith.

Every circumstance of my social position that makes what I am going to say inexpert, insincere, suspicious.

“As a veteran,”

“As a queer femme of color,”

“As an ex-con,”

“As a single mom,”

I might as well not finish the sentence.

Subject position means that I am inexpert in other people’s stuff.

Ideology means that I am inexpert in my own stuff.

Thus disqualified to make any statement beyond identification of my subject position.

A double move. A Till Eulenspiegel prank.