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Responses to Classical Theories of Liberty and Fairness Discussion BoardA “Question For Consideration” may be about any philosophical aspect of the assigned texts we have read for that module, but (1) it must be clearly and directly tied to a text by indicating a sentence or passage quoted from the text, and the page number on which the sentence or passage was found. (2) Not only should a selection and a page number appear, but a philosophical question about the selection or its context should be supplied. (3) Thoughtful and excellently prepared quotes supply a reason the student is asking that question, and further, (4) hazard an educated guess as to the answer. By an educated guess, I mean a guess informed by the text, so the best QFCs will include (5) a quote from another point in the text to support one’s own answer to one’s own question.
Students will sometimes be asked to volunteer to share their QFC with the class. If students do not volunteer, I proceed to start calling on students to read their question aloud. So aim for a question that you are unafraid to share with the rest of the group. We can be very helpful in working out the answers to questions about the text together, so consider the class a collection of allies in the struggle for understanding.
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Kayla Johnson
Oct 16, 2019
Oct 16 at 1:25am
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1. “And these subpersons- niggers, injuns, chinks, wogs, greasers, blackfellows...are biologically destined never to penetrate the normative rights ceiling established for them below white people.” (Mills, 17)2. How is it that nonwhite people are subjected to these restrictions of life prior to being born or thought of?3. I asked this question because nonwhites never ASKED NOR WANTED to be on “European” (US) land. They were forced in or forced out all while enslaved and brutalized. Whites created laws to define humanism to them (“Eurpeans are humanism usually meant that only Europeans were human”), to enforce their superiority is and will be done. To show no whites what can be done and will be done, specifically to them, and they [whites] will receive no consequence because they established these man made laws and social structure.4. The structure itself is dehumanizing and shouldn’t favor one specific grouping, although it does, it enforces the social and moral outlook of nonwhites instantly that nonwhites world is the only functioning and living world. It’s an entire mind manipulation manifestation. 5. “One has to learn to see the world wrongly, but with the assurance that this set of mistaken perceptions will be validated by white epistemic authority, whether religious or secular.” (Mills, 13) Reply Reply to Comment
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How can you not have the right to know what is good for yourself? You are the only person who can truly know how you feel and what is really good for yourself. How can you really take that right away? I agree that your choice should remain untouchable. They don't just want our funding they want to take control of us. They taking our money and our rights away. Medical and social service professionals do not really care about what is good for us because they are oppressing us. They want to break us down and take control of us so that they can remain superior.