PHIL 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: White Supremacy, Sexual Stimulation, Behaviorism
18 Oct 2016
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Week Seven - PHIL*1010 – Introduction to Philosophy – October 12th
Read C: West – Chapter 1 and IPP: Justice and Race
C: West – Chapter 1 – Nihilism in Black America
• Slavery used to be a big thing with blacks in historical and sociological analysis’
• African Americans were divided into two different camps:
o The liberal structuralists – call for full employment, health, education
and childcare programs and broad affirmative action practices.
o The conservative behaviourists – promote self-help programs, black business
expansion, and non-preferential job practices. Depends on how blacks act/live
• Culture is rooted in institution such as families, schools, churches, mosques, etc.
• We must derive into the depths where neither liberals nor conservatives dare to thread,
namely, into the murky waters of despair and dread that now flood the stress of America.
• The liberal structuralists fail to grapple with the threat and they overlook nihilism threats
• Conservative behaviourists – they inadvertently contribute to the nihilistic threat – they
talk about values and attitudes as if political and economic structures don’t even exist.
They discuss black culture as if acknowledging one’s obvious victimization by whites
• Nihilism – the first African encounter with the New World was an encounter with a
distinctive form of the Absurd. The initial struggle was in slavery circumstances.
• The behaviour from black people is based on their response to tragic events – this doesn’t
mean black people are not responsible for their actions: they should still be punished.
• Like all Americans, African-Americans are influenced by the images of comfort,
convenience, machismo, feminist, violence and sexual stimulation of consumers
• Nihilism is a disease of the soul that can never be completely cured, always relapse
although there is a change for conversion which rests in a politic conversion
• Nihilism can’t be overcome by arguments or analyses it has to be tamed by love and care
IPP: Justice and Race
• Members of disadvantage race and women can be victims of direct and indirect
discrimination, and policies of affirmative action proposed as remedies in both cases.
• Racial discrimination is rooted look at the biological background of an individual
• ‘White supremacy’ – belief that white people are superior over other races
• How can one’s appearance affect their likely hood of getting a job (unsuitable, how?)
• Brute prejudice – based on fear of difference or aspects of a person’s pathology
• Most people think in terms of race, influence attitudes towards this and expectations
• Skin colour, hair colour, colour of eyes, etc. should not be subject to racialism
• If there are no races, individuals are nevertheless racialized
• Assimilation – ‘everyone is welcome in this country, as long as they behave like us’
• Multi-culturalism – accepts individuals have a right to live according to traditions even if
those traditions conflict with majority norms. Ex: some religion takes certain drugs
therefore at a festival should these drugs be available to the certain religion or no?
o Some cultures engage in practices that western liberals find barbaric
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Document Summary
Week seven - phil*1010 introduction to philosophy october 12th. Read c: west chapter 1 and ipp: justice and race. They discuss black culture as if acknowledging one"s obvious victimization by whites: nihilism the first african encounter with the new world was an encounter with a distinctive form of the absurd. Ipp: justice and race: members of disadvantage race and women can be victims of direct and indirect discrimination, and policies of affirmative action proposed as remedies in both cases. If there are no races, individuals are nevertheless racialized those traditions conflict with majority norms. Ex: some religion takes certain drugs therefore at a festival should these drugs be available to the certain religion or no: some cultures engage in practices that western liberals find barbaric. In class lecture october 17th oppression part one. The idea here is that there are practices and habits that are rampant in black communities that perpetuate the cycles of poverty.
