ADM JUS 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 32: Ageism, Class Discrimination, Hypersensitivity
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Biological positivism racism, sexism and the rest of the -isms. Development closer to an ape than white human beings (caputo and linden p. Women are biological and intellectual inferior, also based on hormones. Female sex as passive and inferior to men - the female delinquent seemingly acting more like a man was found biologically more like a man. Based also on hormones domination and control, status. Male aggression and male violence is normal: by nature species fight for power, Aggression and violence based on hormonal changes e. g. irritable during monthly. Non whites, women and the mentally ill: less rational ability than white men: intelligence period testing, measurement of skull and brain. A way to excuse killing of whole groups that were defined as other, to access land/territory/resources that the other people possessed (colonization) Were tested and experimented on, intrusive brain surgeries because they were less rational and less able to make decisions.