Feminists critique acts and practices as victim‐blaming. Victim‐blaming is a moral phenomenon: to call a communicative act victim blaming is to criticise it. It is also a political phenomenon. As feminists point out, it plays a important role in perpetuating oppression. But what makes a communicative act an act of victim‐blaming? I propose that victim‐blaming communicative acts attribute responsibility to the victim for the wrong in contexts in which such attributions are morally improper. Attributions of responsibility can be morally imporoper in virtue of what they make salient in a conversation. Making salient the victim's conduct and backgrounding the conduct of the perpetrator can run afoul of the duties we have to the victim: including the duty to listen to the victim, to support her, and to hold the perpetrator responsible.

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 指责受害者


女权主义者批评行为和做法是指责受害者。受害者指责是一种道德现象：将一种交往行为称为受害者指责就是批评它。这也是一种政治现象。正如女权主义者指出的那样，它在延续压迫方面发挥着重要作用。但是什么让沟通行为成为受害者指责行为呢？我认为，在这种归因在道德上不恰当的情况下，指责受害者的交往行为会将错误的责任归咎于受害者。由于责任的归属在谈话中突出的内容，因此在道德上可能是不道德的。突出受害者的行为并背景化肇事者的行为可能会与我们对受害者承担的义务发生冲突：包括倾听受害者的意见、支持她以及追究肇事者责任的义务。