Debates about civil rights issues Flashcards
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GUN RIGHTS : UK
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Gun control is universally accepted in the UK
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GUN RIGHTS : US
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Debate over the 2nd amendment is one of the most prominent issues in the US
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RIGHTS OF IMMIGRANTS : UK
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In the UK there has been debate over whether immigrants should have equal rights to use the NHS and council housing, and whether deporting immigrants who commit a crime constitutes a breach of their human rights under the HRA
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RIGHTS OF IMMIGRANTS : US
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- US debate focused on an estimated 11 million illegal immigrants living in the country, particularly those who arrived as children
- Trumps policy of sending children of illegal immigrants from their parents was modified after a public outcry
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WOMEN’S RIGHTS : UK
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- In most of the UK abortion laws have been legal since parliament passed the abortion act 1967, no main political party wants to remove abortion
- Abortion debate in N.Ireland is clower to that of the US, intense opposition from pro-life religious leaders
- Abortion legalised in N.Ireland in 2019
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WOMEN’S RIGHTS: US
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- One of the largest issues in US politics since Roe V Wade (1973)
- Reps = pro-life, Dems = pro-choice
- Debate is fierce due to the USA’s high religiosity
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RIGHTS OF LGBTQ+ PEOPLE: UK
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- Heated debates about same sex marriage
- In 2020, Boris’s govt cancelled plans to make legal gender change easier
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RIGHTS OF LGBTQ+ PEOPLE: US
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- Same in the US
- Trump introduced a ban on transgender people in the military and removed Obama-era healthcare protections for trans people
- June 2020 the US SC ruled 6-3 in R.G & G.R Harris funeral homes Inc v Equal opprtunity Employment Commission that employers could not sack workers for being trans
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RACE: UK and US
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- Both have had long term debates about the rights of ethnic minorities
- Black people face a lot of inequalities, prejudices and disadvantages
- Debates over civil rights have been more central to US politics, with its history of segregation and racial discrimination, followed by the civil rights movement
- While the UK also had a civil rights campaign, there was no policy of formal segregation
- Today, debates focus on the disproportionately high number of prisoners from minority ethnic groups on th UK, and the fact that black men are x9 more likely than white men to be stopped abnd searched by the police
- Structural and institutional racism was put on the UK’s agenda by the 2020 BLM protests, inspired by those in the US
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RACE: UK and US
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- Both have had long term debates about the rights of ethnic minorities
- Black people face a lot of inequalities, prejudices and disadvantages
- Debates over civil rights have been more central to US politics, with its history of segregation and racial discrimination, followed by the civil rights movement
- While the UK also had a civil rights campaign, there was no policy of formal segregation
- Today, debates focus on the disproportionately high number of prisoners from minority ethnic groups on th UK, and the fact that black men are x9 more likely than white men to be stopped abnd searched by the police
- Structural and institutional racism was put on the UK’s agenda by the 2020 BLM protests, inspired by those in the US
