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Chapter 26 Self Quiz
Racisms, Kwame Anthony Appiah
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Extrinsic racism is the view that the different essences of different races entail
cosmetic and morally relevant differences.
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cosmetic but no morally relevant differences.
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intellectual or morally relevant differences.
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intellectual but no morally relevant differences.
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Appiah describes the inability to change one’s mind in the face of appropriate evidence, due to a personal or ideological stake in the outcome, as
a rare psychological phenomenon.
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a failure of moral character.
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a cognitive incapacity.
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all of the above
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Appiah’s use of the term “racial prejudice” refers primarily to
racial bias that is empirically misguided but morally innocuous.
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racial bias considered as a historical phenomenon.
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deformations of rationality in judgment.
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defects of moral character.
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Appiah describes intrinsic racism as
a moral error.
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a cognitive incapacity.
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an empirical error.
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a brute fact about human psychology.
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Appiah suggests that the best response to open declarations of intrinsic racism is
ignoring the parties in question.
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to criticize defenses made on its behalf.
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to criticize the underlying partiality.
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to suspend discussion and mobilize mass resistance.
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Appiah regards the doctrine of racialism as inherently dangerous.
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Appiah holds that irrational partiality due to personal bias, though tragic, is a brute fact about human psychology about which little can be done.
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Appiah expresses doubt that racially prejudiced individuals are responsible for the way in which their racism makes them bad people.
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Appiah suggests that differential treatment in public life can only be justified by morally relevant differences between the parties concerned.
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Appiah believes that racialism, if empirically true, would help to justify extrinsic, butnot intrinsic, racism.
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