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2019 Annual Uehiro Lectures in Practical Ethics (1/3): What Has Gone Wrong? Populist politics and the mobilization of fear and resentment

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Lies, propaganda, and fake news have hijacked political discourse, distracting the electorate from engaging with the global problems we face. These Uehiro Lectures suggest a pathway for democratic institutions to devise solutions to the problems we face.
I diagnose the deterioration of public discourse regarding basic facts to the rise of populist politics, which is powered by the activation of identity-based fear and resentment of other groups. Populist politics 'hears' the factual claims of other groups as insults to the groups it mobilizes, and thereby replaces factual inquiry with modes of discourse, such as denial, derision, and slander, designed to defend populist groups against criticism and whip up hostility toward rival groups. Nonpopulist groups, in turn, add fuel to the fire by blaming and shaming those who seem stubbornly and ignorantly attached to false claims in defiance of evidence.

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Uehiro Lectures: Practical solutions for ethical challenges
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Elizabeth Anderson
Keywords
political discourse; communication
propaganda
lies
fake news
populist politics
moral concern
Department: Uehiro Oxford Institute
Date Added: 17/10/2019
Duration: 00:55:12

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