Liberation Ideologies Flashcards
Denial of the rights and dignity of people of different races, devaluing of different character traits.
Racism
Challenging race as a category. The inference from superficial differences of appearance to allegedly significant differences in nature are illegitimate and without scientific validity..
Anti-racism
Men should be judged by the content of their character, not the colour of their skin. Who said it?
Martin Luther King Jr.
The elimination of racist laws, discrimination in education and unemployment.
Integration
Skepticism about the idea of integration, Afro American as a national identity, overcoming racist thinking and self hatred to build a stronger sense of identity.
Black nationalism
What can be done about racism?
Guaranteed political representation to create black majority districts, historical compensation for slavery
Racism in the Canadian context has been mainly against:
Indigenous peoples
They saw homosexual love as superior to and more uplifting than heterosexual love because it is a relationship between equals.
The ancient Greeks
They are known for a history of violence against and fear of homosexuals.
Monotheists
This was defined as an illness that could be treated by the American psychiatric association.
Being gay
This has been legalized in about 120 countries, is still punishable by death in many countries.
Being gay
Before there were homosexual acts, now there is a community with separate literature, histories, and ideas, otherwise known as an:
Identity group
Gays are denied this right that everyone takes for granted.
Marriage equality
What sports team pledged against discrimination towards homosexuals?
The Toronto Marleys
Aboriginal groups in Canada: US: Australia:
1st Nations, Native Americans, Aboriginees
The Aboriginal Peoples’ history is one of:
Conquest and occupation
Aboriginal culture was demeaned by these:
Settler communities
This group aims to overcome domination, restore pride/dignity from the impacts of European settlers, and to affirm status.
First Nations
This group wants to maintain their traditional ways of life.
First Nations
This group wants to be granted land claims from treaty rights.
First Nations
First Nations people strive for these powers. They want status recognition as a distinct people, with collective autonomy.
Self government
First Nations people seek this, based on treaties negotiated with the federal government, and separation from the federal system.
Treaty federalism
What is the traditional view of animals for humans?
They were made for human use
Why did St. Thomas Aquinas not think it wrong for man to make use of animals?
Charity doesn’t extend to irrational creatures
Kant argued that we shouldn’t treat animals badly because of this effect:
Spill over effect
What did Darwin’s Origin of Species prove?
We have a common ancestor: apes, from which we inherited our common faculties.
Our greatest moral failings:
Slavery and cruelty to animals
Bentham argued that the denial of animal inclusion into this is discrimination on par with racism.
The moral community
It is not whether they can talk or reason, but can they suffer? Who said it?
Jeremy Bentham
Pleasure should not override torment, which we support by consuming animal products form:
Factory farms
Who popularized the term animal liberation?
Peter Singer
He argued that this must be done, we need to extend equal treatment to non-human animals, and take their agency/vulnerability into account.
Peter Singer
