CRIM 335 Lecture 1: Week 1 Introduction
22 Nov 2016
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Andrew heard (1997: human rights are almost a form of religion in today"s world. They are the great ethical yardstick that is used to measure a government"s treatment of its people. Current issue re: human rights & civil liberties in canada: decolonizing settler. Colonialism: acknowledging the traditional lands of the coast salish peoples (including the. Consider neil macdonald"s plea: consider the role of law in colonization and our responsibilities in engaging in. Kingwell: evidence, truth and the politicization of law. Week 1: introduction: misinformation, rhetorical deceit, bogs belief-systems, and plain ignorance are the norm, not the exception, in human affairs. But in most ages there has been a sense that this is a bad thing, something to be combatted actively : what"s signi cant is that rational push-back on this dangerous nonsense has no little traction. Correction used to cause shame and confusion; now it just prompts a rhetorical double-down.
