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Offending white men: racial vilification, misrecognition, and epistemic injustice
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Richardson-Self, L, Offending white men: racial vilification, misrecognition, and epistemic injustice, Feminist Philosophy Quarterly, 4, (4) Article 4. ISSN 2371-2570 (2018) [Refereed Article]
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Copyright 2018 The Author. Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Official URL: https://ojs.lib.uwo.ca/index.php/fpq/article/view/...
DOI: doi:10.5206/fpq/2018.4.6234
Abstract
In this article I analyse two complaints of white vilification, which are
increasingly occurring in Australia. I argue that, though the complainants (and white
people generally) are not harmed by such racialized speech, the complainants in
fact harm Australians of colour through these utterances. These complaints can
both cause and constitute at least two forms of epistemic injustice (willful
hermeneutical ignorance and comparative credibility excess). Further, I argue that
the complaints are grounded in a dual misrecognition: the complainants
misrecognize themselves in their own privileged racial specificity, and they
misrecognize others in their own marginal racial specificity. Such misrecognition
preserves the cultural imperialism of Australia’s dominant social imaginary—a
means of oppression that perpetuates epistemic insensitivity. Bringing this dual
misrecognition to light best captures the indignity that is suffered by the victims of
the aforementioned epistemic injustices. I argue that it is only when we truly
recognize difference in its own terms, shifting the dominant social imaginary, that
"mainstream Australians" can do their part in bringing about a just society.
Item Details
Item Type: | Refereed Article |
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Keywords: | hate speech, race, social imaginary, epistemic injustice, recognition |
Research Division: | Human Society |
Research Group: | Gender studies |
Research Field: | Feminist theory |
Objective Division: | Expanding Knowledge |
Objective Group: | Expanding knowledge |
Objective Field: | Expanding knowledge in philosophy and religious studies |
UTAS Author: | Richardson-Self, L (Dr Louise Richardson-Self) |
ID Code: | 130119 |
Year Published: | 2018 |
Deposited By: | Office of the School of Humanities |
Deposited On: | 2019-01-10 |
Last Modified: | 2019-03-15 |
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