Moral exclusion arises from a society’s own evaluative schemes

Evidence

There is no racism or moral exclusion outside of culture. We need to take seriously the idea that one of the major sources of moral exclusion is a society’s own moral evaluative schemes for judging people’s dignity. Society can alter, transform, our own ideas about other people’s human rights, our assessment of their safety and vulnerability, and our judgement about our own, and society’s, role in oppression. Those who are perceived and construed as ‘undeserving’ are placed outside the bounds of solidarity and sympathy. That is why prejudice needs to be studied more as a societal and less as a psychological phenomenon. — Cristian Tileagă, The Nature of Prejudice, 807

There is no racism or moral exclusion outside of culture. We need to take seriously the idea that one of the major sources of moral exclusion is a society’s own moral evaluative schemes for judging people’s dignity. Society can alter, transform, our own ideas about other people’s human rights, our assessment of their safety and vulnerability, and our judgement about our own, and society’s, role in oppression. Those who are perceived and construed as ‘undeserving’ are placed outside the bounds of solidarity and sympathy. — Cristian Tileagă, The Nature of Prejudice, 807

Categorization

• SEED: A possible essay angle: how the category ‘undeserving’ makes cruelty feel righteous — tracing which groups a society designates as undeserving and the mechanisms that strip their perceived humanity.
• XREF: Connects to the reader’s existing interest in how moral categories (deservingness) gate admission to sympathy — echoes the sacrificial and scapegoat logics in the ‘On Sacrifice’ article. — connects to: The social system defines its outsiders as residual in order to recharge itself — Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation, 471; Anti-fans hold a shared belief system that deems their own values morally superior — Alice E. Marwick, Status Update: Celebrity, Publicity,…, 393; Dualism renders the lower order a mere resource excluded from the moral sphere — Val Plumwood, Feminism and the Mastery of Nature, 218 (+1 more)
• corroborated: 3 independent passages support this claim — Cristian Tileagă, The Nature of Prejudice: Society,…, 807

Related

• Prejudices arising from denying moral worth need societal analysis (similarity 0.79)
• Prejudice is public harm to esteem, not merely private attitude (similarity 0.78)
• Exclusionary practices against Others inflict harm by altering people’s social worth (similarity 0.78)