Week 2 - CensorshipDefs Flashcards
CensorshipDefs
Censorship
the suppression of words, images, or ideas that are ‘offensive,’ happens whenever some people succeed in imposing their personal political or moral values on others.
Agitprop
agitation propoganda:
- makes you dislike something
- similar to rage bait
What are the 3 parts to role-taking?
- identification
- empathy: reproducing a real life situation for characters who don’t exist
- imitation (mimesis to Greek word [to mime])
Representation
depiction: how things are being portrayed/who is being portrayed
Indoctrination
- used by the right side (conservatives)
- justifies censorship
Education
training the young mind
Education vs Indoctrination
education is a process of learning about facts and truth, while indoctrination is a process of being taught to believe something without being able to support it with facts
Literature
- challenges states and makes people think
- author has a unique subject perspective
- focuses on emotions (influences/touches the way we talk and act)
PEN (Poets, Essayists, Novelists)
coined the term “banned books”
Knox’s Definition of Censorship
control over the production of texts and other cultural goods
Marketplace
- allows you to do what you want
- can be anything (the internet, library)
- “the marketplace of ideas”
Declaration of Human Rights
- comes from UN
- article #19: freedom to express (1948)
- 1958: freedom to read
Freedom to Read
- freedom of expression
- ideological (not in a bad way, i.e. not self evident)
Culture Wars
- “wokeism”, which is extreme liberalism:
response to banning anything “woke” - cancel culture
- triggering
- “snowflake”: over-sensitive
- concerns about children being exposed
Reactionary
- reacting to a specific threat
- goes back to the French Revolution
