Fricker and epistemic injustice
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I would consider culpability to the extent that opposing viewpoints exist. Meaning the occurrence of an injustice can be due to cognitive dissonance. So I guess i'm not disagreeing at all with fricker, and it would be a form of presentism to look at past historical actions and assign blame without looking at the consensus of opinion at the time. However, it seems as though she has taken a simple subject and added a lot of fancy philosophy lingo, and I am not a fan of that.
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Let us imagine that I know there is a bear trap in my garden. And I then allow you to walk through my garden. But I don't warn you about the bear trap.
Is that an example? Obviously you would wish me sentenced in this scenario?
Or are we talking about stuff that I should know. As in I should know that drinking effects driving performance.
Or are we talking about stuff where I'm simply not sure.
As in the difference between ignorance and willful ignorance and just not having reasonable information to make a reasonable decision in the first place.
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Now imagine that person has a criminal record as well, and no police officer will believe them because of their criminal record and they are eventually murdered by the criminals that committed the earlier crime witnessed. The police gave no credibility to their statement, this is called testimonial epistemic injustice by Fricker.
Similar to Robinson who was punished because he knew of the actual events that took place. You recently referenced To Kill a Mockingbird in an earlier post.
I think she really does use a lot of complex language to explain something simple. It can simply be expressed as people don't believe criminals because they're criminals.
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As you describe it then it is pretty much trivially true, and I'm sure there are lots of examples (not necessarily as extreme).
Thinking about it this kind of thing happens all day long every day. For example in my job I don't point out all obviously true things (to me) because they aren't obviously true (to others). Who is actually right is very very secondary (if it could even be judged). That doesn't just apply to my job of course, I don't point out my wife's bad cooking either Not that she is a bad cook, but no one is perfect.
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Our prejudices are formed automatically as a result of our socio-historical context. At the time when To Kill A Mockingbird was set, it would have taken a lot of open-mindedness to be free of this prejudice. A few people managed it, e.g. Atticus Finch. But as our brains automatically acquire prejudices as a way of making information processing more efficient, you could say people aren't necessarily really to blame for having them. People who grew up in that context took it as much of a fact that Blacks are inferior and criminally inclined as we take it as a fact that monkeys are inferior (in intelligence at least) to us. So I would say that although the prejudice against Blacks had horrible consequences, the people (especially those who were uneducated and not taught to question) were maybe not to blame for their prejudices. They were, however, to blame for their cruelty.
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For me it is neither the case that they are absolutely free rational conscious competent agents or absolutely none of those things.
The degree of culpability is difficult to work out.
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