Miranda Fricker
dissects and examines the problems of testimonial justice and
injustice, in her book, Epistemic Injustice, Power and the Ethics
of Knowing. She gives two key examples of examples of epistemic
injustices in order for her audience to better grasp her point of
view. By using the characters of Marge Sherwood in The Talented Mr.
Ripley and Tom Robinson in To Kill a Mockingbird, Fricker draws in
her audience and succinctly identifies two critical components to
testimonial injustices, race and gender. Throughout her novel,
Fricker arrives at the conclusion that even though testimonial
injustices occur frequently in the daily life of a human,
testimonial justice can be achieved. The understanding of Miranda
Frickers view of what testimonial
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Children are
the best examples of this because more times than not, they do not
exhibit signs of
discriminationdespite
prejudicein
society. Fricker gives Scout from To Kill a Mockingbird as a prime
example of a testimonial just child in spite of the highly racist
community she lived in. Another factor for Scout, and most other
children, is how prejudiced their parents are and teach their child
to be. A parent who teaches their child to be relatively
unprejudiced against all
peoplewill then
have a child who does not think that discrimination is the norm,
despite societal norms. Although children cannot be completely
shielded from the bad influences of society, children themselves do
not inherently have testimonial injustice. In my opinion, Miranda
Fricker is arguing that a childs naivety and optimism in society
and people is what leads them to possess testimonial justice. Some
might say that people have to get their prejudices from somewhere
so how can children be born to have testimonial justice then
suddenly become prejudice? I would argue that prejudices came from
hundreds of years ago from a combination of economic, gender,
racial, and class inequality. From this, they have become part of
society as different qualities of society like the economy or
politics have flucuated. Also, children get these prejudices from
their communities telling them this is what is expected and
is
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