PO301 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Speciesism, Anthropocentrism, Stolen Generations
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In some circumstances, the best way of protecting a culture, and preventing its members from suffering involuntary disadvantage, is to grant it group-differentiated rights. Kymlicka"s argument is therefore individualistic in an important way, consistent with justificatory neutrality, but is intended to apply to indigenous groups and national minorities rather than immigrant groups. If the exemption doesn"t infringe on individual rights, and if they have a special right to the exemption as opposed to everyone, and the practical workability of the exemption. Depends on extent to which trying to impose dominant cultural ideas; extreme cases such as the stolen generation of aboriginal people in australia. Banning the burqa also arguably oppressive - inability to access own culture. However, teaching same language in all schools not oppressive - and also requiring people to learn english to work in the public sector, the reasons for this matter to determine whether oppressive or not.
