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Speciesism , Sexism, Anti-Semitism; Words, Looks

Speciesism , Sexism, Anti-Semitism; Words, Looks. Monkey Shankar . Goals. Ethics: The second goal of the required/ethics flag courses—learn to make real-life ethical choices—is closely related to the core purpose of the University of Texas, to transform lives for the benefit of society.

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Speciesism , Sexism, Anti-Semitism; Words, Looks

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  1. Speciesism, Sexism, Anti-Semitism; Words, Looks Monkey Shankar

  2. Goals • Ethics: The second goal of the required/ethics flag courses—learn to make real-life ethical choices—is closely related to the core purpose of the University of Texas, to transform lives for the benefit of society. • To experience by analogy a little of ethical dilemma presented by Anti-Semitism, especially the Holocaust. • To experience by analogy a little of ethical dilemma presented by Sexism. • To experience more directly the ethical dilemmas presented by speciesism, especially cruelty to animals. • To become aware of real life ethical choices made daily by all of us involving cruelty to animals. • To return to the traditional college goals of developing character and conscience. • To practice replacing fear and greed with love, compassion tolerance, and the sympathetic imagination.

  3. Lesson Plan • Meditation. • Sunny and Cloudy. • Quiz? • Discussion.

  4. Themes • Categorizing ourselves only separates us further. • Gender is used to assign roles and characteristics. • Gap in language causes humans to believe that they are superior. • General sense of internal conflict/frustration (family, religion, societal pressures, upbringing). • Violence caused by both genders. • Everybody hates society’s stereotypes. Let’s break them!

  5. Stereotype Game • What’s a gender stereotype that you’ve felt has limited you? • Or, what stereotype do you hate the most that you’ve dealt with? • Crumple it up.

  6. Questions • Share recent experiences in which you’ve felt conflicted about eating meat. (Hint: Thanksgiving) • What do you think the role of language is as humans continue to to display animal cruelty? How is our communication a barrier? What do you think we should do to fix this? • How are gender stereotypes perpetuated in our society? What can we do to fix this? • What is one thing you can do today to change how people view animal cruelty? • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWc1e3Nbc2g&feature=related

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