Relaxing epistemic norms on grounds of demandingness risks entrenching epistemic injustice by permitting lower standards for groups already disadvantaged by poor epistemic socialization.

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Demandingness(as a characteristic that marks excellence rather than inappropriateness): The quality of being difficult, challenging, or requiring a lot of effort—in this case, the idea that true intellectual excellence is hard to achieve.
Entrench(as describing what happens to the worry about backward causation): To make a problem or concern more firmly established and harder to get rid of; to strengthen rather than weaken something.
Epistemic norms(as standards that apply to beliefs): Rules or standards for what makes a belief reasonable or justified—basically, guidelines for how we *should* believe things.
Epistemic socialization(as used in epistemology): The process of learning from your community and environment how to think, what counts as knowledge, and whose ideas to trust—shaped by the people and institutions around you.

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