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"It's okay to be racist': moral disengagement in online discussions of racist incidents in Australia “成为种族主义者？没关系”：澳大利亚在线讨论种族主义事件中的道德堕落 Abstract: Racist views expressed on the Internet have damaging consequences for social harmony and well-being. This article examines how and why individuals express support or opposition to racist behaviour in a prominent online medium: comments on news websites. Specifically, we examine how supporters and opponents of racist behaviour use a particular type of subtle discursive strategies known as moral disengagement in their online responses to three notable racist incidents that occurred in Australia in 2013. Moral disengagement strategies allow individuals to avoid distress, self-condemnation, and social-sanctions when supporting or engaging in harmful behaviour by making that behaviour appear moral and acceptable. We show that supporters, but not opponents, of racist behaviour consistently use moral disengagement strategies in their rhetoric, and demonstrate that moral disengagement provides a powerful theoretical framework through which racist rhetoric on online news websites can be understood. 摘要：在互联网上表达种族主义观点对社会和谐和福祉有破坏性的后果。本文探讨了在一个著名的在线媒体的新闻网站的评论中，个人如何和为什么表达支持或反对种族主义行为。具体来说，我们研究种族主义的行为的支持者和反对者如何使用一种特定类型的精妙的话语策略，被称为他们对2013年发生在澳大利亚的三大出名的种族主义事件的在线回应中的道德堕落。当支持或从事有害行为时，道德堕落策略使得个人避免痛苦、自我谴责和社会制裁，使得行为好像是道德的和可接受的。我们证实，种族主义行为的支持者，而不是反对者，一贯在他们的言论中使用道德堕落策略，这表明道德堕落提供了一个强大的理论框架，通过它可以理解在线新闻网站上的种族主义言论。 作者: Faulkner, Nicholas; Bliuc, Ana-Maria 来源：ETHNIC AND RACIAL STUDIES 卷: 39 期: 14 页: 2545-2563 出版年: NOV 2016 (责任编辑：admin) |