Videos - Midterm 1

Question 1

Central Issue of the ‘Quebec’s Charter of Values’ Video

Answer 1

Imposing of values on Government Employees in Quebec

Question 2

What were they hoping to ban for Quebec gov’t employees and what would they still allow?

Answer 2

Hijabs, Turbans, Jewish hats, Large crosses would be illegal, only small symbols would be allowed (Rings, earrings, small necklaces)

Question 3

What is wrong with this law from a rights standpoint? (Quebec vid)

Answer 3

• Infringes on peoples Religious Rights

- Does the majority have the right to impose their ideas on the minority?

Question 4

What is the true meaning of human rights?

Answer 4

We still debate the very meaning of human rights, there is nothing neutral or concrete about it

Question 5

What do Rights have the potential to do?

Answer 5

• empower those who lack power in our society – they can defend themselves and demand equality
• has the potential to constrain those with power because it highlights or reveals the hierarchies
• We may disagree on how to protect and what human rights are, but we all agree they are necessary and legitimate

Question 6

Who are Human Rights particularly effective for?

Answer 6

those who don’t have power – ex. Gay Rights Movement, few other movements have appropriated human rights so successfully – framed their argument as “This is a human rights violation” allowing them to successfully be accepted

Question 7

Central issue of the article: ‘Do Online Death Threats Count as Free Speech?”

Answer 7

• If online worlds are purely imaginary, do their threats still count?

Question 8

Central issues of John Oliver’s video on the Internet

Answer 8

• How technology raises new human rights concerns

- How the limits of the law can’t address these concerns