ABSTRACT The incorrect conceptualization and evaluation of reparations for colonial slave trade and slavery within the legal, as opposed to the political, domain, produces an interpretation of the demands in France that views them as morally absurd and politically deleterious. I’ll use Iris Marion Young’s distinction between a liability model and a social connection model of responsibility to suggest that the moral claim according to which we can be held responsible today for redressing the structural injustices inherited from slave trade and slavery is not irrational, nor motivated by a political will to divide the body politic between blamed perpetrators and innocent victims. I’ll first analyze the difficulties posed by the liability model by focusing on a specific legal case, MIR and CMDP vs. French state. Then I’ll argue that using a political model of responsibility solves conceptual and normative issues and allows us to understand why, and to what extent, we are responsible for redressing the structural racial injustice that endures in French society.

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法国的殖民奴隶贸易和奴役与结构性种族不公正：使用艾里斯·杨（Iris Young）的社会责任模式

摘要在法律领域而不是在政治领域内，对殖民奴隶贸易和奴隶制赔偿的错误概念化和评估不正确，对法国的要求做出了一种解释，认为这些要求在道德上是荒谬的，在政治上是有害的。我将使用艾里斯·马里昂·扬（Iris Marion Young）在责任模型和责任的社会联系模型之间的区别来表明，今天可以根据我们承担的责任来纠正从奴隶贸易和奴隶制继承的结构性不公正现象的道德诉求不是不合理的，也不是不合理的。出于政治意愿的动机，在被指责的肇事者和无辜受害者之间划分了政治机构。首先，我将着重于特定的法律案例，即MIR和CMDP与法国的关系，来分析责任模型带来的困难。