Mere Civility

Autoeficacia, corrupción administrativa y corrupción política

“…Y la respuesta, cada vez más frecuente será: más allá de donde se supone que está (según los mapas oficiales, llevados a la web). 50 Que por otra parte presenta sus propios problemas de delimitación entre el respeto, la conformidad, la difamación y la mera persecución (Bejan, 2017). La mera persecución no necesariamente solo del que habla, que es lo más evidente: tuit contra un rey corrupto ergo pena de prisión.…”

The dialectics of toleration and the power of reason(s)

“…In her book, she stresses the plurality of motives for civility as tolerance, such as 'unreflective habits of good breeding, from respect not for others but for God or the social order, from a recognition of another's superior (or inferior) merit, from personal pride or chauvinism, or even from private intolerance and evangelical zeal' . 11 The reason why I think that this is a misreading of my view is that I consider the respect conception of toleration (based on a neo-Baylean justification) as only one among a considerable plurality of conceptions and stances of tolerance. It is a mistake not to recognise that, of course, I regard all versions of the other conceptions of toleration -permission, coexistence and esteembased on all kinds of justifications and motives (religious, pragmatic, sceptical, epistemic, strategic and so on) as forms of toleration.…”

“…Second, in her book Bejan criticises an interpretation of toleration that she calls reductio at respectum, by which she means a reduction of the complex virtue of civility as toleration to 'a form of Neo-Kantian respect for persons' . 8 In a recent review article, she scolds me for such a reduction, 9 and this also seems to be at work in her criticism that my Kantian view, which asks persons to 'imaginatively adopt the perspective of self-legislator' , may be 'one thought too many' , as it were (TB 34), to use Bernard Williams's nice phrase. 10 Without that additional thought, tolerance appears as what it realistically is according to Bejan, namely 'the habitual forbearance, the mental (and physical) toughness, of "putting up" with it and not asking why' (TB 34).…”

Do Users Ever Draw a Line? Offensiveness and Content Moderation Preferences on Social Media

“…One of the most common operationalizations of offensiveness in existing literature is uncivil behavior. Numerous scholars have discussed how incivility might be perceived as intolerable and detrimental for democracy or, contrariwise, as an essential element for democratic emancipation (Papacharissi, 2004;Bejan, 2017). It has been linked to a number of negative psychological and social outcomes, such as boosting aggressiveness, retaliation, polarization, escalation of nasty talk, close-mindedness and the marginalization of, and spreading fear to, minorities and marginalized groups.…”