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Is standpoint theory self-contradictory?

According to standpoint theory, something like objective truth doesn't exist. If we want to learn something about the world, we have to consider different standpoints, especially due to existing social inequalities which result in people having very different experiences.

But isn't that contradictory?

1) If everything is a matter of standpoint, then inequalities do not objectively exist, either, do they? If there is no objective truth, then how do we know there is inequality?

2) more generally speaking: isn't standpoint theory itself only a standpoint? If there is no objective truth, then standpoint theory is (by its own reasoning) again just another POV on the same level as the perspective "there IS universal truth".
gpt
Standpoint theory does not take it that there is no objective truth. The claim is that our epistemic access to objective truth is mediated by our standpoint. It’s an epistemic theory, not a theory of truth. It’s a theory about how we know things not what is true or anything about truth.

Every worry you have just follows from this misunderstanding.