This week’s Philosophy Unleashed (the last before the Easter break) looks at the institutionally racist, misogynistic, and homophobic London Met police force and calls out their commissioner, Mark Rowley, for refusing to use the word “institutional”. It also looks at institutional prejudices baked into schools. https://www.philosophyunleashed.com/theblog/151-institutionally-afraid-on-the-importance-of-acknowledging-institutional-prejudice

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151. INSTITUTIONALLY AFRAID - On The Importance Of Acknowledging Institutional Prejudice — Philosophy UNLEASHED

When the prejudice is institutional, not merely the result of bad actors and bad actions, one doesn’t even have to intend to be prejudiced to be complicit in prejudice. Philosophy about the Casey Report, policing, schooling, and institutional prejudice.

Philosophy UNLEASHED

Which should I read?

#LindaAlcoff (2005) Visible Identities: Race, Gender, and the Self

#JudithButler (2022) The Force of Nonviolence: The Ethical in the Political

#BenjaminLipscomb (2021) The Women are up to Something: How Elizabeth Anscombe, Philippa Foot, Mary Midgley, and Iris Murdoch Revolutionized Ethics

#KateManne (2018) Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny

#MarthaNussbaum (2021) Citadels of Pride: Sexual Abuse, Accountability, and Reconciliation