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Abstract: \;What sense can we make of a claim like &ldquo\;racist jokes legitimate racial discrimination&rdquo\;\, if it refers to a social context in which racial discrimination is legally sanctioned\, and those sanctions are widely supported? There is a distinctive concept of &lsquo\;legitimation&rsquo\; at work here. But its meaning isn&rsquo\;t clear. And as a result the term sometimes looks more like a rhetorical device than a bona fide critical concept. In this paper I try to remedy this. After distinguishing the target concept from some other uses of the term &lsquo\;legitimation&rsquo\;\, I present two rival accounts of the target concept. One says: A legitimates x when A makes x seem normatively legitimate in a local context. The other says: A legitimates x when A contributes to the descriptive normalisation of x in a global context. I argue that legitimation seems like a more credible critical concept if it&rsquo\;s understood according to the second account\, and explore some implications of this.

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