Hornsby {Korey Nuehs}

1.       I agree with Hornsby in that I don’t think a derogatory term user is necessarily committed to a huge web of racist ideology. But I don’t know if one can have a negative attitude towards something without said ideology, as she seems to implicitly state. It seems that they are committed to at least part of the ideology, i.e., unless they also have the corresponding intention to use the term in its prescribed way.

2-3.       I don’t know if I completely agree with Hornsby’s criticism of Brandom (although, I will say that the paper was kind of a slog for me using a lot of terms I don’t know). It seems to me that derogatory words are simply expressions such as ‘that A is bad_ (insert derogatory term here)’, with bad and good both being somewhat indefinable and based upon the speaker’s ideology; and derogatory words being confined to certain social groups within said ideology. I don’t know if someone has to commit to a bunch of ideological principles other than stating that ‘A is bad (or at the very least, doesn’t conform to my view of the world)’ within a certain ideological framework. In this sense, it would seem derogatory terms do two things state a principle within the framework and enforce the ideology onto the external world, which also seems to disprove Hornsby’s statement that Derogatory words are useless as a term such as ‘terrorist’ or 'extremist' could be derogatory, while also having a fairly agreed upon use.