WGS160Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Heteropatriarchy, Cultural Genocide, White Supremacy
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Leviathan (hobbes): people want a sovereign authority, but it isn"t always presented by a hostile leader, rather, a benevolent mother/father. Family and state work in the patriarchal model. Any liberation not challenging heteropatriarchy cannot challenge colonialism or white supremacy. Patriot act an bill c-36: extend governments power, lessens privacy fro the sake of security, people gave up human freedoms and rights. People brought cases to government and un committee. Physical genocide, 90% of the population was wiped out by violence of disease. Cultural genocide, forcing assimilation into culture, outlawing certain aspects. Through this work, in 1985, people were reinstated with an amendment to bill c-51. Idle no more was against bill c-51, it affected us all but it was fought against by an. Omnibus bill: had to be read carefully, a bunch of rules squished into one bill. Harper was sanctioning murder, silence and taking of children, they lose their funds.
