HW 2/13

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  • Sometimes laws seem almost meaningless in the face of being interpreted to fit the biases of judges most frequently.
  • Who is the “we” that are investing in the Atlanta schools? I think a quality education is of vast importance to creating well-equipped generations of people for the world and to further our progress as a society and culture. How these investments are handled and who is handling them is quite crucial. On top of this though I think there is a high correlation between the amount of investment a school receives and the wealth of the surrounding area which it resides in. A little bit of a tangent but I think poverty and lack of education go hand in hand. Both really need to be addressed simultaneously and that’s a bit of the point being made here it seems but I think this needs to be more community driven than government run. These problems don’t seem to have disappeared necessarily even today.
  • Plato held some strong socialist ideologies so I can’t say I’m surprised he floated this idea around.
  • I would be curious to see the writings of scientists in this time that weren’t so heavily influenced by biological determinism.
  • Maybe this incessant portrayal of blacks as animals was a partly subconscious choice to justify their actions towards them. Throughout history humans typically distort their image of others to think of them as not human to be able to commit such horrific acts and live with it.
  • Polygenists only seem to further reinforce this idea. The claim that different races are entirely different species only helps to allow the mind to rationalize thoughts of inferiority, justifying immoral acts.
  • The inundation of seemingly “expert knowledge” from a scientific perspective lends to reinforcing the behavior of men who already believe in such ideas and possibly even persuade some others that are on the fence.

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