created 2025-03-27, & modified, =this.modified
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Epistemic Injustice is injustice related to knowledge. It includes exclusion and silencing; systematic distortion or misrepresentation of one’s meanings or contributions; undervaluing one’s status or standing in communicative practices; unfair distinctions in authority; and unwarranted distrust.
Testimonial Injustice
Is unfairness related to trusting someone’s word. For example a man sees his friend murdered. Police officers arrive at the scene and are suspicious of the man. The police fail to view him as a credible witness presumably in part due to racial bias. Prejudice “caused the hearer to give a delated level of credibility to a speaker’s word.”
Hermeneutical Injustice
Is when someone’s experiences are not well understood – by themselves or by others – because these experiences do not fit any concepts known to them (or others), due to the historic exclusion of some groups of people from activities, such as scholarship or journalism, that shape the language people use to make sense of their experiences. For example, a woman might better understand what happened to her, and better be able to convey it with the use of the term sexual harassment which was introduced in the 70s.