Just Words: On Speech and Hidden Harm PDF

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Just Words: On Speech and Hidden Harm

Read Online and Download Just Words: On Speech and Hidden Harm. We all know that speech can be harmful. But what are these harms, and how exactly does the speech in question bring them about?Mary Kate McGowan identifies a previously overlooked mechanism by which speech constitutes, rather than merely causes, harm. She argues that speech constitutes harm when it enacts a norm that prescribes that harm. McGowan illustrates this theory by considering many categories of speech including sexist remarks, racist hate speech, pornography, verbal triggers for stereotype threat, micro-aggressions, political dog whistles, slam poetry, and even the hanging of posters. Just Words explores a variety of harms--such as oppression, subordination, discrimination, domination, harassment, and marginalization--and ways in which these harms can be remedied. .

Just Words: On Speech and Hidden Harm by Mary Kate McGowan

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