Media, Information and Technoculture 3100F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Oka Crisis, Sentenced, Toronto Star
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The article made very clear what was wrong, says organizer philippe burns, student co-president of oak park collegiate. The students want to challenge the city"s culture of apathy and wilful ignorance about indigenous issues, says deborah tsao, a student at st. john"s-ravenscourt school, a private school located in one of the city"s more affluent neighbourhoods. Tsao counts herself among those who, for too long, have been turning a blind eye to the problem. This rational argument stands on its own and requires no rebuttal or contextualization. In this sense the media discourse denies that the. Ketchum: our society privileges rationality above everything else, standpoint theory, gone with the wind, standpoint contends that the shared" social world is in fact inhabited by classes and hierarchies, which occupy different cultural space. Naturalness" with which newspapers, art and common sense constantly dress up a realty which, even though it is the one we live in, it is undoubtedly determined by history.