Oppressive ideology regularly misrepresents features of structural injustice as normal or appropriate. I argue that resisting such injustice therefore requires critical examination of the evaluative judgments encoded in shared concepts. I diagnose a mechanism of ideological misevaluation, which I call hermeneutical misfit. Hermeneutical misfit occurs when thick concepts, or concepts which both describe and evaluate, mobilise ideologically warped evaluative judgments which do not fit the facts (e.g. slutty). These ill-fitted thick concepts in turn are regularly deployed as if they merely describe (hence ‘just the facts’). I argue that, via this descriptive masquerade, ill-fitted thick concepts smuggle in warped evaluative judgments alongside apparently value-neutral ‘mere facts’, a process which both reinforces those judgments and increases the difficulty of critique. I suggest that, to resist this process, we should develop collective consciousness and articulate ‘meta-hermeneutical resources,’ or thick concepts which encode critique of other, ill-fitted concepts (e.g. slut-shaming).

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“事实就是事实”：厚重的概念和解释学上的不协调

压迫性意识形态经常将结构性不公正的特征歪曲为正常或适当的。因此，我认为，抵制这种不公正现象需要对共同概念中所包含的评价判断进行严格的审查。我诊断出一种意识形态错误评价的机制，我称之为解释学错位。当厚重的概念或既描述又评价的概念调动了与事实不符的意识形态扭曲的评价判断（例如放荡）时，就会发生解释学错位。这些不合时宜的厚重概念反过来又被经常使用，就好像它们只是描述一样（因此“只是事实”）。我认为，通过这种描述性的伪装，不合时宜的厚重概念与明显价值中立的“纯粹事实”一起混入了扭曲的评价判断，这一过程既强化了这些判断，又增加了批评的难度。我建议，为了抵制这一过程，我们应该发展集体意识并阐明“元解释学资源”，或者编码对其他不合适概念（例如荡妇羞辱）的批评的厚重概念。