Minority rights – our final discussion on a political topic. Automatically, we dove into how we can all say we understand how minority rights exist, and how they're beneficial. We discussed how if it is required to have a certain knowledge to pass a citizenship test, that the government should supply the needs for immigrants to be able to be competent and pass. From there, it was said that if a resident of a different country wanted to gain rights to be a citizen in this country, they should be take it upon themselves to be able to acquire that knowledge. A very heavy discussion trailed from then into immigration, that I was too immersed into to really notate.
It skipped a little into social minorities – homosexuals, age, etc. etc.
It dove back into immigration.
We changed the terminology of rights into justices.
This discussion was definitely thorough.
It was a very fast moving discussion!
ReplyDeleteMy Questions For Brown(Discussion):
1. Why do we use the term "Tolerance" if it has such a negative meaning?
2. What type of things MUST we tolerate?
Factual Question: Which 3 political figures said, "We are not for gay marriage but we are for tolerance [of gay people]."
Answer: John McCain, Sarah Palin, George Bush
1) In what decade was there "an enormous renaissance in the use of 'tolerance'"?
ReplyDelete1990s
2) Do imperial politics and tolerance not mix?