Eric Bayruns García: Understanding and Social Expectations: How Society’s Unjust Structure Depresses Transmission of Understanding of Racial Injustice

I present an account of how racial injustice depresses subjects’ capacity to transmit objectual understanding of racial-injustice information. According to this account, racial injustice can depress this capacity not only through racial injustice’s effect on the social expectations that guide whether a subject attempts to engender objectual understanding of racial-injustice information in their audience, but also through its effect on the degree of objectual understanding that speakers can engender in their audience of such information. This account provides novel explanatory purchase of how racial injustice itself contributes to ignorance of racial injustice.