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| Heresy yes, conspiracy no |
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Rules that applies to college.
Heresy- beliefs that are different than the norm, no right or wrong component, people should be able to talk and debate about the things that are outside the norm
Conspiracy- Communism is a conspiracy, promote it at the cost of everything else. Use of the 5th amendment
Refusing to testify if asked about communism, if college professor comes to commission- has no legal obligation to testify, but has a moral obligation. Can be removed for refusal |
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| a policy of unilateralism and pre-emptive military action to suppress potential threats from other nations and prevent any other nation from rising to superpower status. See Defense Planning Guidance for the 1994–99 |
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| emphasized the need to consider the basis of social order in society |
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| Just laws/unjust laws- In his words |
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| “A just law is a manmade code that squares with the moral law or the law of God. An unjust law is a code that is out of harmony with the moral law.” He adds “that uplifts a human personality is just. Any law that degrades human personality is unjust.” |
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| Booker T Washington’s approach to race relations says that blacks would abandon the struggle against segregation as well as delay demands of civil rights so long as Blacks had economic liberty |
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| Niebuhr’s theory of “predatory self-interest |
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| can not simply wish away evil, people will not fix it themselves. humans have a natural instinct to do what they can to benefit themselves. alot stronger in groups. |
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one of the leading anarchist Emma Goldman- refers to Thoreau the greatest anarchist. Anarchism is not about violence, it’s about love. Liberty unrestricted by law-3 enemies that need to done away with
• Religion-prisoner of the mind
• Property-separates humans from other humans
• Government- oppresses the people and is only there to regiment human beings. |
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| the people’s party) One of three major political movements. Populism was created by farmers who were upset because they were losing business due to the railroads that would charge any fee they wanted to. |
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| another one of three major political movements created by the American middle class. Three main progressive thinkers Jane Addams, Thorstein Veblen, and Herbert Croly. Progressivist did not want to do away with the system, just make it better within the industrial economy. |
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| ideology that all human beings belong to a single community, based on a shared morality |
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Individuals who had close ties to the Communist Party and were sympathetic to many of its positions but who were not members. Pg. 253
15. Southwestern Socialist- farmers who had turned to socialism after the collapse of the populist movement. |
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| using a public office or position of trust for one's own gain or advantage. |
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| a campaign in the United States launched in June 1964 to attempt to register as many African-American voters as possible in Mississippi, which had historically excluded most blacks from voting |
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A book written by Betty Friedan in 1963 analyzes two basic parts: 1. the narration of the impact of the modern media, including advertising, on women’s consciousness 2. An appeal for a new sense of individualism.
She addresses the issue of a women’s unhappiness is reflected on sexual dysfunction, neuroses, ennui, and unfocused on anger. She calls this “the problem with no name” and traces the origin to this general frustration to the role of the housewife |
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| Characteristics of systematic discrimination |
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| Identifying people based on categories. Race, gender, sexual orientation or handicapped |
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