The Place of Voting in the Ethics of Counterspeech
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21701774 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Chiara Fumagalli (0000-0002-5402-162X, South African Institute for Medical Research, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 26 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 595-609 |
| Publication date | 2023-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Ethical Theory and Moral Practice (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1386-2820 • E-ISSN: 1572-8447 |
| Publisher | Springer Science and Business Media LLC (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1007/s10677-022-10356-y |
| OpenAlex | W4316653357 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 28 |
The literature on counterspeech has been debating how institutions and citizens should respond to offensive or dangerous communicative acts. This article identifies a gap in this debate, namely, the lack of attention paid to the individual vote in large-scale democratic elections as an effective act of distancing from candidates who use explicitly derogatory forms of expression to unify and mobilize supporters. In studying the place of voting in the ethics of counterspeech, this article investigates what counterspeakers can expect other counterspeakers to do in large-scale democratic elections framed as a vote for or against hateful representatives. I argue that even in large-scale elections, the individual act of voting, understood as a contribution to increasing the clarity of the indicators of force of a collectivized speech act, can be an effective form of counterspeech. Voting is one of the first forms of counterspeech that must be taken so that other, and perhaps more controversial, actions can stand criticism on moral grounds. For this reason, I also argue that counterspeakers can expect other counterspeakers to contribute to an electoral outcome that, under certain circumstances, can be received as a vote against representatives who use explicit derogatory forms of expression to gain consensus
CLARITY · Criticism · Democracy · Economics · Law and economics · Offensive · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Voting · Hate Speech and Cyberbullying Detection · Law · Political Philosophy and Ethics · Populism, Right-Wing Movements
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‘Yo!’ and ‘Lo!’
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Democratic Legitimacy and the Competence Objection
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Counterspeech
Targeting Statues
| Unique citing works | 4 |
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| Citations per year | 2 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2026 (3) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |