POT3302 Week 10
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POT 3203 Fall 2024
Week 10 Module
THEME: Identity Politics I
DEADLINES:
Quiz and Part A questions: Monday 10/ but accepted until 10/30 in Webcourses.
Part B posts: Wednesday 10/30 in Yellowdig
ASSIGNED READINGS AND VIEWING:
(all subjects to quiz)
Read:
Ball and Dagger, chapter 8: Liberation Ideologies and the Politics of Identity
View: Two videos:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPCkyxHoiFE ks Links to an external site.
This video is a lecture presenting the arguments developed by Peter Singer for animal rights. About 14 minutes in length.
https://www.kinderworld.org/videos/meat-industry/cow-slaughter/Links to an external site.
WARNING: This video show cows being killed at a slaughterhouse. It is difficult to watch. About 5 minutes in length.
PRESENTATION
This week the textbook presents several different ideologies: six in all! These have a common set of traits or attributes, but they are also concerned about different issues in different contexts, some of great importance to all while others are perhaps more specialized. This renders our task a little more complicated. We need to understand both the commonalties but also the specificities of each ideology.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
After completing this chapter, students should be able to:
- Describe the characteristics common to all liberation ideologies.
- Describe the main features or tenets of the several liberation ideologies.
- Describe the conception of liberty or freedom found in each of these liberation ideologies, specifically: Black liberation; Women’s liberation; gay liberation; native people’s liberation; liberation theology; animal liberation.
- Reflect critically on the eating of animal flesh.
PART A TASKS in Webcourses
See Tips for Posting in Part A in Files.
Q-0: Is there an idea or a claim expressed in the readings that you find difficult, confusing, or unclear? If so, tell us which idea this is. Cite the document title and page where you encountered this idea. We cannot help you if the description of what is unclear is overly broad. You do not need to answer this question.
ANSWER ONLY ONE OF THE FOLLOWING TWO QUESTIONS:
Q-1 RACE: Summarize in your own words what Ball et al. describe as the “most pernicious form of racism.” Stick to the information given in the textbook.
200 words minimum. State your word count.
Q-1 GENDER: Summarize in your own words what Ball et al. describe as the “more subtle forms of sexism.” Stick to the information given in the textbook.
200 words minimum. State your word count.
NOTE: In answering the question in Part A, you must strive to demonstrate that you reflected on the meaning of the readings and viewing. There is no right or wrong answer. There are only answers demonstrating shallow and perfunctory or serious and deep reflections on the material. We want to see the latter.
Your Part A answer is graded 50% for thoughtful content and 50% for proficient writing.
PART B TASKS in Yellowdig
Task-1: Answer the question raised by the instructor.
Is it ethical to eat animals?
Are animals not sentient beings just like humans? If so, by what right do we torture and kill them to feed ourselves? Are there not good alternative sources of food for us such as plants? What would you think if one or two animal species took control over the earth and fed on human flesh? Would there be something wrong with that scenario? And if so, would that wrong also not apply to humans eating animal flesh in the current world? In other words, why would it be acceptable for humans to feed on sentient beings such as animals, but it would be ethically unacceptable for animals to feed on human flesh? What is so special about human beings that entitles them to eat sentient animals? Aren't animals entitled to equal consideration of interest as defined by Peter Singer? If not, why not?
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